Word: lying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ironic inhumanity of all this is that there is still food in Hunan. Scores of beggar children wander with chopsticks and empty rice bowls through Hengyang or lie exhausted in the gutters, but the city's restaurants still serve ten-course feasts for those who can pay. We ate such a meal one night as guests of the local newspapermen, whose slightly fantastic prelude to the banquet was the presentation of carefully wrapped samples of the clay, weeds, rice husks and grass on which people were starving not far from our table...
Lana Turner was made moderately happy by U.N.'s Trygve Lie: he consented to be photographed with her-but then inquired: just who is Lana Turner? Explained Lie: "I haven't seen a movie in five years...
...Trygve Lie and fellow U.N. delegates went out to the ball game, dined ball-gamely. Lie tucked in hot dogS, Australia's Lieut. Colonel William Roy Hodgson nuzzled peanuts, The Netherlands' Dr. Eelco N. van Kleffens crunched a candy' bar. Observed a member of the secretariat: "It's a crazy country...
...oddly does that once prophetic message read today! How many broken hopes lie on each side of that grand, sweeping highway! For new national religions have arisen in our time with a power and a grip on the soul of men far surpassing that of the gentle and humane rationalist appeal...
...Poland's Oscar Lange: "Only U.N. voice with a sense of humor." <1 Norway's Trygve Lie: "Charming, justly fair...