Word: lying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...before." The reality, as always, was hard to sort out from the claims. Last week the FLN put out a communiqué claiming its troops had killed 500 French soldiers, knocked out a dozen tanks and armored cars in ten days. Snorted a French journalist: "This is intolerable. They lie even more than...
...economic consequences of his adventurism have piled up round him, Nasser has leaped as recklessly as Hitler for the big lie. Last July, linking Israel, the U.S. and Jordan together, the Cairo Voice screamed: "Brethren in Palestine, imagine that the intention is to solve the Palestine problem. Imagine that the government of Jordan, which is serving American imperialism, wants to sell the Palestinian refugees and to remove them to Iraq . . . hand you over to your American enemy to annihilate...
...taking full advantage of its busy new trade route to Africa and the East. Nasser had even allowed some Israel-bound cargoes through the Suez Canal. And at week's end Israel opened the Lake Huleh reclamation project, designed to drain 15,000 acres of malarial swamp that lie partly in the neutral zone along the Syrian border. In its six years of construction, Syria had repeatedly complained to the Security Council about the project. Last week the Syrians, chastened and preoccupied, raised not a murmur of protest...
...give it style. If it has almost no Broadway snap, it has even less Broadway brassiness. If this is a Jamaica with little ginger and no rum, those, after all, are largely its exports. From at least a musicomedy standpoint, Lena Horne, gay colors, winning tunes-and even shiftless lie-in-the-sun librettos-are its tourist attractions...
Putzi's book, probably his last attempt to capitalize on his career as Naziism's foremost political pianist, often reads like an edition of Munich Confidential. Politically and morally, it has the usual 20-20 hindsight. Its value for future historians will lie mostly in the gossipy anecdotes that show Hitler in his moments of off-platform relaxation-some of them very comic, as when Adolf, after the failure of the beer hall Putsch, threatens to commit suicide, but allows himself to be easily disarmed by Hanfstaengl's pregnant wife...