Word: lying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Smoke had a few hits too many: it vegges out and should be led, without severe reproach, to the nearest bed where it can lie peacefully, bothering no one. If you really want to spend eight bucks and have a merry old time laughing about all those funny situations that you get into when you smoke dope, then buy yourself a few joints and have fun without ever leaving your room. Up in Smoke got burned out before it even got started...
...that was only for starters: Finch would show up for meetings late and then read the wrong speech; lie about employment statistics to create the illusion that his administration was solving the state's devastating unemployment problem; publicly denounce the state legislature just before they went in to vote on one of the few concrete bills Finch presented. In the Nixonian tradition, his cohorts told Jackson bankers to add to Finch's coffer or risk losing lucrative business with the state government...
...Camp David agreements pass one hurdle, but problems lie ahead...
...once flourishing centers of sin-like the notorious White Rose Café-have been closed down by the puritanical Pathet Lao government. On Rue Setthathirath more than half the shops are shuttered tightly, though not the Large Soviet cultural center on the corner. Rusting hulks of cars and trucks lie at the side of the roads leading out of the city. Even the front garden of the old Royal Palace has fallen into a state of near total disrepair-the King was sent to a reeducation camp...
...Pope's hands. White-tied Vatican ushers rushed forward, hissing, "Perfavore, suore!" (Sisters, please!). In the line, New Jerseyite Diane Rapp, 23, remarked, "He was a young people's Pope. He died too soon." In a Saturday-night procession, the body was carried into St. Peter's Basilica to lie in state there...