Word: lying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eloquent plea in The Federalist papers for "energy in the Executive," the office was invested with broad authority but it was also artfully hedged. Every strong President has exploited his mandate to the fullest, always testing the Congress and the judiciary to see where the parameters of power may lie. Just where they ought to lie is an argument that has raged for 180 years. More than a century ago, when Chief Justice John Marshall scolded Andrew Jackson in Worcester v. Georgia for failing to honor a treaty guaranteeing the rights of the Cherokee Indians, Jackson is said to have...
...guru of his time who preached a primitive form of love power, but Western churches are generally abhorred by the hippies as irrelevant and square. Instead, they display a considerable interest in the occult on the theory that the important levels of spiritual consciousness are those that lie beyond man's reason. "Christ studied the occult," contends one Los Angeles believer, explaining dubiously that "he learned to walk on water...
...spokesman for the police said that Swift's calling himself a Harvard student will be considered a lie, and "they will ask him about it during the trial...
Last week he declared that the shortest road to settlement might lie within South Viet Nam itself-and that the two parties to travel it first should not be Washington and Hanoi but the Saigon government and the rebel Viet Cong. The trouble was that the South Vietnamese President and his colleagues -not to mention the Viet Cong-seemed reluctant to make the trip...
...World War II. Significantly, the majority of tourists who have booked rooms at the Royal Taga for the next six months come from Japan. They will look out of their windows onto a beach that U.S. Marines assaulted back in 1944; the rusty wrecks of two U.S. tanks still lie in the water...