Word: lying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Longer Reach. Seldom mentioned but not forgotten was that the greatest political bargaining weapon in U.S. and British hands was Russia's need for credits. Areas of conflict between the Western Powers and the U.S.S.R. lie much nearer to the latter's predominant land power. Credits may extend the bargaining reach of the U.S. and Britain at the peace settlement...
...city had no time for dreams; like a battered prize fighter, it could only lie panting, waiting for some small return of strength. Endless blocks of homes lay in charred ruins. Most buildings were damaged; everywhere piles of glass-spangled rubble spilled into the streets. It was robbed as well as wrecked: the Japanese had stripped the Pearl of the Orient systematically of automobiles, refrigerators, furniture-everything that had been deemed worthwhile to ship to Japan...
Within it lie the eastern Mediterranean and the Red Sea, parts of Britain's essential passages to the old treasure house of India and to the new, possibly greater treasure house of Africa. The Arabian Sea (northern part of the Indian Ocean) and the Persian Gulf flank India, reach into some of the world's richest oil areas, and may yet be Russian outlets to the south -as, until recently, they were Russia's inlet for Lend-Lease. And adjoining the Arab heartland lie Turkey and Iran - both Mos em but non-Arab -looking...
Like the 23 candidates for initiation who had preceded him, 20-year-old Robert Perry of Harrisburg, Ill. was blindfolded and stripped. His chin, belly, groin and legs were daubed with a coating of lampblack and collodion. Then he was made to lie down on a table and, while voices taunted him with horrible threats, one of the brothers stood ready to give him a mild shock in the crotch with an induction coil charged by two dry-cell batteries...
Pluggers operate throughout the country but work most feverishly in Chicago, Hollywood and Manhattan, where the important radio and nightspot entertainers can be buttonholed. On Hollywood's Vine Street, some 50 determined merchandisers lie constantly in wait for Bing Crosby, most highly sought contact in the business, since he is allegedly able to turn an obscure song into a national hit with a couple of performances (example: White Christmas). In Manhattan, where the plugging fraternity boasts some 325 workers in sharply draped suits, some 35 play a weekly game of gin rummy with Fred Waring in a Broadway automat...