Word: lying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Loud applause for your exposing the weakness of Khrushchev's loud and bumbling propaganda attempt to convince the rest of the world that the power of the American long-range flying bomber is over. This is an insidious lie, made more tragic by the fact that some Americans have come to believe it. One of the best things that could happen to the world right now would be for Khrushchev to launch one of his ICBMs. He could undoubtedly kill a lot of Americans (maybe), but for the next five years he could probably not hit a single significant...
...Development, made one of the more sanguine statements of the Sputnik period: "My first reaction to the earth satellites was to ask myself the question: If intelligent life is found on other planets, will the people there be borrowers or investors? Of course, if they are investors, there may lie the solution of all my money-raising problems...
...strategy behind the grandiose words and quixotic gestures filling the NATO meeting this week probably is intended to give the lie to recent Soviet boasts and bellows. America is trying to show her friends that she is not the slightest bit impressed by the Kremlin's noises. But obviously, our allies are impressed...
...peaks, that low inventories will be rebuilt and spur manufacturing. To cool down recession talk, the New York Federal Reserve Bank made one of its rare public predictions, said that "the period of most severe decline may have been passed," and only "relatively mild" adjustments seem to lie ahead. Manhattan's Guaranty Trust Co. said that chances of a real recession are diminishing...
...issue gets even hotter as the Interior Department opens public hearings in Washington to hear the objections to its new leasing rules. Chances are that the oilmen and conservationists will work out a compromise because there is believed to be just too much oil in Kenai to let it lie there. The Fish and Wildlife Service will demand guarantees that the oilmen protect the moose by routing their roads around rather than through the moose land, by keeping oil from wells from polluting the marshes. Oilmen are expected to accept these conditions, and the stiffer leasing rules. For one reason...