Word: lying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...results from a more particular examination of Republican actions in 1946-1947 and 1952-1956. Measuring the actions of the present administration against the three broad propositions stated above, I think it is beyond dispute that the large body of its proposals, and certainly those which have been successful, lie well within the area of compromise staked out by the present consensus...
...could I work as a doctor?" As the weeks wore on, the young doctor was appalled by his task. The islanders refused to pay bills or take orders. Some 300 Senans were seriously ill with bronchitis, rheumatism and TB; many of the children had whooping cough. What lie de Sein needed, L'Haridon pleaded to mainland authorities, was a modern dispensary equipped with X ray to spot TB cases, plenty of drugs, and a helicopter to remove serious cases to the mainland. Last week the mainland offered to equip a dispensary-but only if the islanders would pay their...
...made his rounds last week, Physician l'Haridon decided that the case of lie de Sein was more than a 20th century doctor could cure. Said he: "I won't leave until another doctor arrives. But I can't stay here." To the Senans, unhealthy but untaxed. the impending departure of their sixth doctor in six months was no crisis. "So he goes," shrugged one islander. "Another one will come along...
...unpleasant fact is that during the Franco-Prussian War Honoré Haudouin was forced to lie quietly under his mother's bed while a Prussian sergeant had his way with her. Convinced that Zèphe Maloret sent the Prussians there, he has hated the family ever since. His well-to-do brother Ferdinand wants to drop the feud because Maloret is important politically. Ferdinand is the kind of man who, on hearing that his favorite son wants to enter the priesthood, says flatly: "You'll get no dessert until you have changed your mind." Hearing the shocking...
...cited letters from Governor Frank Lausche of Ohio, where Carling's head office is situated, praising the company as "a good citizen," and from the mayor of Cleveland, describing Carling as "an asset to Cleveland." Said Governor McKeldin: "If there is danger of unfair practices . . . the remedy should lie in the strengthening of existing laws-not in barring an enterprise because of its record of success in competition...