Word: lying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...farrowing pen. Most pig births are normal, but sometimes a little pig needs to be helped into the hungry world. Sometimes one is born in a covering caul which has to be ripped off by a profit-motivated finger. Sometimes the heaving, grunting sows, from weakness, clumsiness or distress, lie or roll on their farrow. Sometimes they try to eat them. Sweeter to a pig farmer's ear than the ethereal fluting of the prairie lark is a sow's "pumping," the regular ugh, ugh, ugh, which means that the litter has discovered how to suckle and that...
...Secretary-General Trygve Lie took Russia's side in his first intervention in the Council's affairs - a letter questioning its right to keep Iran on the agenda. The Council referred the letter to its Committee of Experts, who lined up as the Council had, eight to three against the Lie interpretation. As a consolation prize, Lie saw his first ball game (Giants 8, Phillies 4 - see PEOPLE), while Hodgson sat beside him, cracking peanuts...
Giving the lie to a widespread rumor which found its way into the supplement of a local basic English magazine, gridiron coach dick Harlow matched two teams out of the spring football candidates at Soldiers Field yesterday...
...food package, which will contain $50 worth of valuable food items sent by college students as "a friendly gesture. . . expressing our regard for our comrades in Europe," will be transported by Professor Simmonet of the University of Paris to the Rector of the University, on the steamer lie de France...
...specialist in Elizabethan tragedy and modern poetry. Dressed in tweed jacket, grey flannels and loud bow tie, he grips his lectern and recites poetry in a flowing, resonant voice and a Philadelphia accent improved in Britain. Characteristic advice to students: to understand James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, "lie on your bed, hold the book over you, and let the words just pour down." Next year, to the two courses he now teaches to Harvard and Radcliffe students, he will add English V-the Boylston course in creative writing, limited to 20 select students (among its famed grads: Emerson, Thoreau...