Word: lying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the couple moved into one apartment, it was often filled with young actors sitting up all night reading plays. "Annie was intense about everything," May remembers now. "She'd lie on the floor and watch television by the hour, or she'd fry an egg, standing there leaning over the skillet staring as if the fate of the city depended on that egg. She was either a hungry tiger or a lovable...
...many of our college problems would seem to lie in the establishment of a series of Freshman dormitories with dining halls," he wrote in 1910. "This... would give far greater opportunity for men from different schools and from different parts of the country to mix together and find their natural affinities unfettered by the associations of early education, of locality and of wealth; and above all it would tend to make the college more truly national in spirit...
Gates, who has been Deputy Defense Secretary for six months, moved into his new job last week on the run. An hour after taking over, he reversed McElroy's longstanding policy discouraging press conferences by the Air Force, Army and Navy Secretaries. Ahead of him lie the same problems that McElroy did not get around to-plus an even more urgent need to grasp the military possibilities in space. Gates has a scant year before the Eisenhower Administration runs out of time, but if he only improves Pentagon morale and makes overdue decisions, he will surely qualify...
...steaming jungles of Cape Comorin, on the Indian Ocean. In summer, wrote Rudyard Kipling, there is "neither sky, sun, nor horizon. Nothing but a brown-purple haze of heat. It is as though the earth were dying of apoplexy." During this furnace season, millions of Indian villagers lie gasping in their mud huts; wells dry up and fields blow away. When the monsoon rains come in the fall, the torrential downpours drown the arid land in surging floods. Only in the winter months does India appear comfortably livable and nature kind...
...oration proclaiming that Asians should reject everything from the West except its money. Asian as well as non-Asian delegates found Sukarno's program dated tiresome and useless. "The time has come for us to think less of the colonial past and more of what tasks in fact lie ahead of us," said Ceylon's Finance Minister Stanley de Zoysa, to the biggest applause of the session...