Word: lying
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Lucien has no sooner plunged into politics than he has "a sensation of swimming in mud." His father had forewarned him: "You only direct the dirty work, you never do it yourself. The principle is this: every government, even that of the United States, lies always and about everything; when it can't lie on the main issue, it lies about the details. There are good lies and bad. Good ones are those that the [middle class] believes; excellent ones catch some of the carriage public; execrable ones are those nobody believes, and that only the most shameless ministries...
Some of New Hampshire's finest skiing may also be found on the other side of the White Mountain, in the Franconia region. Here on Cannon Mountain lie numerous intermediate and expert slopes easily reached by the 2,000-foot Aerial Tramway. The lower half mile of the Cannon trail was widened to 125 feet and two new trails added during the summer...
...CRIMSON feels that Radcliffe has presumed a responsibility for news which can rightly lie only with a newspaper. The CRIMSON believes that if Radcliffe allows itself to take disciplinary action because of an inaccurate story, it is giving itself the right to censor stories to avoid "misrepresentation of Radcliffe policy" and by necessary extension this carries with it at least the threat of censorship to avoid publication of stories which Radcliffe would prefer not to be published. This threat of censorship is an inevitable consequence of application of college rules, disciplinary action, and finally probation in a case where...
...from new mothers soon after delivery has even proved effective in treating the disease (TIME, Nov. 27). Rather than take blood from new mothers, Dr. Tufts decided to try something else. The same factor that prevents arthritis in pregnant women and infants (who never have arthritis), he reasoned, must lie in the blood of the placenta, gallons of which are thrown away every day in any obstetrical center...
...babies he has delivered run into thousands. Many of them have come back to him to be delivered of their own babies, and several of the second generation have come back to be delivered of the third. The modest fees that Dr. Luce has often failed to collect lie recorded and forgotten in musty ledgers. "The minute young interns start thinking about the money they're going to get in their profession," Dr. Luce now says, "that minute they start to be failures...