Word: lying
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There is a well-known and true story of Robert McNamara's difficulty with the Vietnamese language. He likes to make a small pleasantry to his audience--usually "Vietnam for 1000 years." Unfortunately, to the Vietnamese it came out sounding quite different--"The duck wants to lie down." The Viets would always howl at this and Mac thought he had really scored. Vietnamese, is their answer to Sun Valley, Palm Beach and White Sulphur Springs. Both sides regard it as one of the trophies in this war and consequently it sees little of the fighting. Saigon politicos and generals...
...years." Unfortunately his aides never told him that the printed words for the phrase have to be pronounced quite precisely to convey the message. And every time Mac would wave his arms and give his little greeting, the audience would always hear something quite different: "the duck wants to lie down." The Viets would always howl at this time and Mac thought he had really scored. Maybe his French will get him by at the World Bank conferences...
Since 20 million men in the U.S. are believed to have signs or symptoms of heart-artery disease, even the most dedicated surgeons admit that the ultimate solution cannot lie in their hands, even though an entirely artificial heart may be developed. One hope is that improved drugs will first control, and eventually prevent, the atherosclerotic process. The more distant ideal is for men to adopt, early in life, patterns of diet and exercise that will make surgery and even drugs unnecessary...
...reasons for its success lie in Disney's own unfettered animal spirits, his ability to be childlike without being childish. In his Jungle safari, he obviously aimed for the below-twelve market by stuffing his scenario with pratfalls and puffing it with the kind of primitive tunes that can be whistled through the gap left by a missing front tooth...
Rutgers English Professor Frederick T. McGill has given the pedagogical lie to hippiedom's worshipful identification with 19th century Transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. Thoreau was no "true hippie," said the prof, because his rejection of society was really a matter of "giving up what he desired least in order to leave time and a little money for the essentials." And these essentials, McGill added, did not include blowing his cerebrum. "Thoreau said morning air was his chief intoxicant," lectured McGill. "He undoubtedly would have rejected artificial stimulants and the use of mind-expanding drugs...