Word: canard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although Greene's statement refuting the Globe story was issued almost immediately after the edition hit the streets, the United Press in this time sent the canard on its nation-wide wires, only to be forced to issue "kill" instructions a short while later. Radio commentators all night were telling the whole story, complete with the denial...
Between testifying on Capitol Hill and looking after her command, Oveta Hobby took time out last week to nail a canard. Columnist Walter Winchell had reported that, as North Africa's "biggest problem," the WAACs might be sent home. Said Colonel Hobby of Winchell's item: "Not only . . . without foundation, but the WAACs there are performing their duties so satisfactorily that General Eisenhower has requested many more...
...fine, mellow mood. He had glowing praise now for the speed with which Congress had passed his anti-inflation bill. He had kudos for the Selective Service system and his military advisers. And he gallantly assured American women that the old saws about female curiosity were a canard: "The first people to look up from their work were the men-and not the women. It was chiefly the men who were arguing whether that fellow in the straw hat was really the President...
...m.p.h.). Japan has about 1,000 planes in China (400 fighters, 300 observation, 300 bombers) and about 5,800 altogether (2,350 fighters, 1,900 observation and transport, 1,550 bombers). About 2,100 military pilots and 1,000 civilian pilots are trained every year. Contrary to the old canard about Japanese pilots not being able to see as far as the lenses of their glasses, Army and Navy fliers are perfect physical specimens and blindly, unimaginatively brave. The Japanese Naval Air arm is far superior to the Army's, whose flights can usually be identified by their ragged...