Word: lying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story on Gannon, carried under the by-line of Arthur Siegal, sports editor of the Boston Traveler, was called "a lie" by the Crimson wingback. "I don't know where he got the story," Gannon added, "but it's not true. We're going to have a good club next year, and it looks like people who don't like us are trying to ruin the team before we even get started...
...high average in England), was pleased that many of the present crop planned professional careers-in medicine, law, music, art. By current-events classes, Miss Tanner tried to make the 367 girls conscious of the world outside, not long ago held special prayers for U.N.'s Trygve Lie (father of Old Roedeanean Guri Lie...
...captured few imaginations. Insofar as they paid any attention to it at all, the world's plain people watched how their own national leaders were doing in the U.N. arena. It was typical of the state of the United Nations that Trygve Lie enjoyed clamorous popularity in Norway, where he was feted on his soth birthday last summer by everyone from Crown Prince Olaf to Communist Party leaders; but when a TIME correspondent asked a Warsaw hairdresser last week for her opinion of Trygve Lie, she merely asked: "What is that?" London's man-in-the-street...
...Lie, to do him justice, would sacrifice his tax exemption and much more to see U.N. grow strong enough to keep the peace. He believes passionately, however, that the infant U.N. must learn to crawl before it can stand up to the great nations whose veto almost nullifies U.N.'s peace-loving powers. Learning to crawl toward peace will be a slow process, Lie says: "This task, to make life richer for ordinary human beings everywhere, must occupy us throughout our lifetimes, and it will occupy those who follow us in time to come...
...called Tucker's shakedown story an "unvarnished lie." He had been hired by Tucker, said he, back in July to help raise cash for Tucker's auto project. Tucker's charges of a shakedown now, said he, were merely an attempt to get out of paying him. He threatened to "sue Tucker for the fees and for libel." (Said Tucker: "Poppycock...