Word: lying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great majority of the British people are fundamentally decent, law-abiding and peace-loving people, whose greatest faith and hope lie in an effective U.N. and an enduring Anglo-American alliance. Do not lose faith in these people because of the criminal actions of the Eden government...
Between Tsinan, an industrial city in the Chinese province of Shantung, and the Mississippi valley of the U.S.A. lie 8,000 miles, an ocean, half a continent-and an ideological infinity. One dark, rainswept night last week, two ex-G.I.s of the Korean war completed the long journey between those points. For Arlie Howard Pate, 25, the trip ended near Carbondale, Ill.; for Aaron P. Wilson, 24, it was over at Urania...
...have surrendered to a police post nearer home," one of the Kikuyu elders at the trial pointed out, and the other two agreed. "Kimathi did not come out of the forest as a man of peace," they said, making the court's verdict of guilty unanimous. "The witnesses lie," sneered Dedan Kimathi, but Chief Justice Sir Kenneth O'Connor thought not. His sentence: Kimathi to be hung by the neck until dead. As an ambulance carried Kimathi away from the courthouse, a crowd of impassive Kikuyu natives watched in stony silence...
...occasionally, the dialogue is so polished as to remain forever obscure. Still, the world she describes, if not the authentic 18th century, is nevertheless an authentic world of the imagination. Her Paris is as gay as a dream of Paris, her Egypt as eerily strange as all lands that lie below the horizon of time, and her people have a fevered life of their own-more life, in fact, than they are likely to have in the three-hour movie that will certainly be made from Mirage...
Inland from Venezuela's Caribbean coast some 200 miles, the swift, black Caroni River plunges into the chocolate-colored Orinoco. Southward from this junction of two mighty streams lie jungles and sandy scrublands studded with low, reddish mountains. This poor-looking expanse is one of the world's great storehouses of iron. West of the Caroni looms Cerro Bolivar, blanketed with 500 million tons of high-grade ore. Farther west lies another iron mountain, El Trueno, endowed with 150 million tons. On the other side of the Caroni. Bethlehem Steel Corp. gathers up 3,000,000 tons...