Word: lying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lie." As the last favorable tide began to ebb, the union leaders made one desperate final effort to win the men back from Murphy's sway. "Listen," one of them shouted, "if you'll take the ship out on the tide, you can turn this meeting into an executive session and elect your representatives now." But Murphy shouted him down. There'd be no election, he cried, until tomorrow, "and we'll let the ship lie there tonight." The pimply-faced steward looked at the tall ship and cried gleefully: "Well, chum...
Motion pictures don't appeal to the giant former flank man, at least not as a way to judge the mistakes of his tutees. "'Pictures don't lie' doesn't apply to football games," say Jacunski. "The camera distorts the play and sometimes you think a man could have made a tackle when he actually was yards away from the ball-carrier...
...witch hunts," in the civil service, President Truman issued an Executive Order making possible "loyalty tests" for some two million government employees. In addition, the Civil Service Commission was ordered to create a "review board." In the action of this board, which meets for the first time tomorrow, will lie the success or failure of the President's program. Without forceful moves on the part of the board, the examinations can easily fulfill the raucous predictions of those who are already waving their manifestos and shouting "police state...
...bill calls for all ex-presidents to become senators-for-life on the theory that the talent of elder statesmen should not lie fallow after they step down from the White House. The idea isn't new. In the days of President Buchanan the six ex-presidents still alive were known to have favored the scheme...
Eggs for the Teacher. Whether or not more distant critics would agree that Siqueiros was really a genius, they would have to admit that he played the part with dash and style. As a boy, he liked to lie in bed and outline hovering nudes on the ceiling with pistol shots. At 15, he was arrested for throwing eggs at his teacher during an art student strike; the teacher wouldn't let them paint outdoors. "Since then," he murmurs, lowering his bright green eyes, "I've been taken to jail nearly 70 times...