Word: lies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thrust past the huge road blocks, rows of logs sunk deep in the road with earth piled in between, where the Germans had hastily improvised defenses. Around these lie the old familiar signs of another lost German battle, the scattered helmets, the ripped off pants legs and coat arms where wounds were dressed, the golden sprinkles of ammunition, the smashed ma chine guns and the still smoldering trucks overturned in the ditches...
Winston Churchill growled like an angry bulldog when Laborite M.P. Richard Stokes accused him of lying to the House of Commons (in a flowery praising of British tanks), demanded that Stokes "repeat his exact words," appeared mollified when Stokes substituted for the word "lie" the Victorian phrase, "terminological inexactitude...
...Asia, he said, "has sunk to subhuman depths of ferocity. Race antagonisms lie behind it. We are now creating a generation of American and Japanese youth seared with the brand of mutual hate and contempt." Invasion, bombing and unconditional surrender will be followed by the outlawry, duplicity and mutual suspicion which military occupation is bound to bring. And this may lead to a nationalistic government cool to foreign Christianity and firmly behind Japan's ancient and ingrained ancestor-emperor worship...
Many a scientific cloud on the horizon promises, or threatens, to revolutionize postwar living. One is the "microwave." Microwaves lie in the largely uncharted area of the radio spectrum above the part now used for conventional sound and television broadcasting (upper limit: roughly 80 megacycles). Microwaves are used in radar, and most of the wartime discoveries about them are still military secrets. But radio engineers have found their potentialities dazzling. This week plain citizens were given a glimpse of what the engineers envision...
Some had light wounds like broken arms or legs, and they would be evacuated soon. Others, despite the best efforts of many skilled men, would die and lie forever in the alien volcanic ash of Iwo. A medical corpsman who had severe multiple abdominal wounds died as we stood beside his cot. One minute his heavy rasping breath could be heard throughout the tent. The next he was quiet and the sheet was pulled over his head. I saw a big marine who might have been a wrestler, judging by his huge neck and bulging biceps. His barrel chest heaved...