Word: lies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...down the field. Tough, sardonic Air General Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz, soon to be Chief of Army Air Forces, stressed the importance of air power in the "airpower age." Said General of the Army Dwight Eisenhower: "Unless we have unity of direction in Washington through the years of peace that lie ahead we may enter another . . . Pearl Harbor...
...Hastings fishermen protested against the encroachment of an amusement park on their fishing grounds (see cut). ¶ In London's St. Bartholomew's Hospital, 40 night nurses, peeved with their frugal fare, staged a lie-down strike. They stayed in bed an extra hour...
...DEAD LIE STILL - William L.Stuart -Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Sam Talbot managed to be both a $30,000-a-year artist and a hard-drinking, indestructible private detective: "A big rough-look ing guy with dark hair. Good clothes...
...communications were not opened, all China would suffer. The great popular migration home would be delayed, galloping inflation would be harder to check, industrial reconstruction would lag. Above all, a bleak, fuelless winter would lie ahead. For North China's railways tap the nation's great coal mines. Only one of these-the Kailan fields, lying on the line between Tientsin and Chinwangtao -was open last week. U.S. planes and Central Government guards were on the alert to bar any Communist attempt to block Kailan shipments...
...Guthrie's statement that surgery has become painless "shocks one as a thundering lie ... but of course means only that the patient does not feel the touch of the surgeon's knife. . . ." (The pain comes after operations...