Word: lying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reason does not lie in black genes, says Silberman, or the "cultural baggage" that blacks brought over from Africa. Rather, violence is something blacks learned in the U.S. "For most of their history in this country, in fact, blacks were victims, not initiators, of violence." As one Southern police official summed up justice for blacks before World War I, "If a nigger kills a white man, that's murder. If a white man kills a nigger, that's justifiable homicide. If a nigger kills another nigger, that's one less nigger." Or, as a Negro blues song put it, "White...
...rotation. Insecticides and herbicides have done away with the need to rotate crops in order to keep pests from infesting the soil. No longer must a farmer periodically allow his best land to lie fallow, or plant it with unprofitable crops...
...extent. In all fairness to the movie, however, the relationship between Erich and Billy is very subtly implied, and the need to make it explicit does not seem an obvious one. The discerning viewer will draw the appropriate inference; in any case, the importance of their relationship does not lie in the sexual act, but in the life-giving emotional support Erich lent Billy when he most needed...
Their decision, Soviet energy experts told a group of U.S. journalists visiting their power plants and physics laboratories, has not been taken casually. As they see it, the U.S.S.R. has no choice. Though the country's coal reserves are the world's largest, they lie mostly in Siberia. Mining this coal is costly; transporting it thousands of miles to the main cities is difficult; burning it in large amounts will cause environmental problems. Oil is not the answer either; the U.S.S.R. is so desperate for hard currency that it sells much of its oil abroad. It is also...
...posters announcing the demonstration while leaving up posters announcing the Kennedy School dedication itself--and that he had been doing so on instructions from Archie C. Epps III, dean of students. Epps has denied that he issued any such instructions, but why should the officer have any reason to lie about Epps' having given the order? The matter deserves clarification...