Word: lies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soldiers, sailors and marines who lost their lives in World War II had ever said where they wanted their bodies to lie. Of the combat troops polled on the question early this year by TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod, the great majority hoped that they would be buried near the scene of their last battle, with their comrades-in-arms. But war widows and parents, by & large, do not share these sentiments; by last week, the War Department alone had received nearly 90,000 letters from next of kin who want their soldiers' bodies brought back...
With this plan, the War Department ran head-on into representatives of private cemetery interests. To the cemetery associations, the plan was a tax-consuming monster, violating the "American tradition" under which, they said, the soldier preferred to lie among members of his own family, in a graveyard in his own community, in ground consecrated according to the rites of his creed. The cemetery associations wanted Congress to allot families a set sum for private burials. Private cemeteries, they claimed, have enough vacant plots for 200 years...
...having flexed its muscles, Apra was no longer so apprehensive. This week, as President Bustamante studied the bill submitted by Congress, the streets were Apra's. The Party's show of strength had given the lie to the anti-Apra pasquin pundit who had said: "They [Apra] could have been the masters of Peru. They had the girl in the automobile and the lights were out. And then the girl left them. For the crux of the matter is not to have the instrument but to know...
...give the impression of having risen to a higher plane, who seem superior to ordinary human misery, are the people who resort to the aids of illusion, exaltation, fanaticism, to conceal the harshness of destiny from their own eyes. The man who does not wear the armor of the lie cannot experience force without being touched by it to the very soul. Grace can prevent this touch from corrupting him, but it cannot spare him the wound. Having forgotten it too well, Christian tradition can only rarely recover that simplicity that renders so poignant every sentence in the story...
Reviving tradition as completely as possible under present crowded conditions, Lowell House will present this evening lie first Elizabethan comedy since 1941. A virtually unexpurgated production of Thomas Middleton's bawdy "A Chaste Maid of Cheapside," with a cast of 16, will be given at 7:30 o'clock in the dining room and will be open to House members only. The yearly dinner, with candlelit tables, Yule log ceremony, and carols will be held on Monday night...