Word: lying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reservoir of skill and talent on which the bureaucracy continuously draws. A friend remembers Janos as saying before the revolt: "The workers and the peasants hate the regime because they know it is wrong and evil. They accept this and go on working. But we intellectuals are paid to lie about the regime. The workers know we lie, and so they hate us too. But the truth is we hate ourselves for lying...
...Budapest, back on Oct. 23, had created great excitement in Vac. Lazlo hurried home from the factory. "A big argument started right away," he recalls. "I said a great change is coming and that we must do something about it. My father-in-law disagreed. He said everyone should lie low, or the AVH would get us. One of my wife's brothers-in-law said, 'It is madness to turn against Russian power. It will crush you.' Then my wife, who is better educated than the rest of us, said: 'Well, I am sure that if we start something...
...burned, a quiet wick in a wild night, Loving what lie beheld and will behold...
...disciple) has spent more time on the continent than any other person. He came there first as an eager, wide-eyed Sea Scout with the Byrd expedition of 1928-30; when he leaves it for the sixth time, in February 1958, some 5½ years of polar life will lie behind...
...great advantage would lie in the fact that it would enable each student to work at his own rate of speed. Able students, previously held back because teachers have to devote extra time to slower pupils, could, with one of Skinner's devices, progress independently of both the teacher and the rest of the class...