Word: lying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ashamed of some of my brethren in Israel who tried to prevent the burial of a half-Jewish boy in a Jewish cemetery. Because of your stirring article, I will rewrite my will to state that when I die I would like to be buried at Arlington Cemetery, to lie side by side with my Christian brethren, and I dare anyone to put a fence around my grave...
...Defense would be the final Pentagon authority in all matters, especially including administration of the services, which he must now share with the Secretaries of the Army, Navy and Air Force. Those Secretaries would be replaced by Under Secretaries of Defense, one for each service, whose responsibilities would lie within the Department of Defense instead of with the separate branches...
...work, he made the rounds of town restaurants, gathering swill to feed the pigs. With money earned from the hog sales, Roberts bought 15 acres for cotton, potatoes and alfalfa. After each day's work in the oilfields, he irrigated his crops; on hot summer nights he would lie down to sleep at the end of an irrigation furrow in his alfalfa field, and when the water got far enough down the furrow to lap at his body, he would jump up, dam the wet ditch and open the next furrow...
...Teamsters Union would not affect the impartiality of his verdict, held out adamantly for acquittal. His reason: the U.S. Government had failed to make its circumstantial evidence stick. Though Jimmy was free to go (on $2,500 bond), he was by no means out of the courtroom woods. Ahead lie: 1) outcome of a suit by 13 rank-and-file Teamsters, who maintain that Jimmy was illegally chosen president of the union last Oct. 4, 2) disposition of a federal perjury indictment, 3) the certainty that the Government will take him to trial again on the conspiracy charge...
...slow. His trouble: too many memories and too many tunes. He rewrote the whole show, he vows, at least 20 times, turned out 38 songs that eventually were whittled down to 17. Finally he found he did his best work about 5 a.m. "I'd wake up and lie there and suddenly something would come clear," he says...