Word: lying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fire and Fish. At 7:15 the lookout reported planes. Berlin started back toward the cockpit; it was already too late. The only thing he could do was lie down, so he stretched out on deck and calmly gave an order: "All right, general quarters." The port gunner, a blond youngster named Richard Dudziak, started to fire into the engine of an approaching plane. It looked like an American SBD but the location of two blue-burning exhausts meant a Jap torpedo plane. As the plane passed over, Skipper Berlin could almost reach and touch the red ball...
...puzzling over this in his usual diffuse and disorganized manner, he observed Cpl. E. L. McDonald straggling out of the dining hall and asked what the bottleneck might be. "Oh, nothing much," replied the raconteur of Ruthruff and Ryan, "They're just having a little trouble making the horse lie still...
Bioff: "I remember lying to Judge Knox and the jury, and it was a lie in its entirety. . . . I lied and lied and lied...
...Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold...
Prop. In Chicago, Mrs. Josephine Skrodenis won a divorce when she complained that her husband, a murder-story fan, took up most of her evenings making her lie on the floor as the "corpse" while he tried to reconstruct the crime...