Word: deceits
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...Sihanouk was deposed on March 18, 1970, and there are three years thereafter that this Administration, including the President, lied to the Congress and lied to the American people without any justification ... Congress may very well have approved it. But... it was the right of Congress to have known ... Deceit and deception over issues as grave as... waging war cannot be tolerated in a constitutional democracy...
...broker whose only interest is to fill his own pockets by playing off worker against employer. The engrossing story of Barrera's meteoric rise to power, combined with the suspense of the election campaign, is so well presented that the audience cannot help but be outraged at the machiavellian deceit perpetrated against the unsuspecting workers...
...scientific experiment, Dr. William Summerlin, 35, has declined either to defend himself or to publicly explain his action. But last week, after an S.K.I, peer review committee upheld the accusation and fired him from the institution (TIME, June 3), Summerlin broke his silence. Denying any intention of deceit, he gave his version of the events that precipitated the S.K.I, scandal. At the same time, he provided his fellow researchers with a cautionary tale about the perils of high-pressure science...
...most part, however, Nixon came across in the transcripts as a coarse and cynical President, chiefly bent on manipulating associates and plotting strategies to keep himself isolated and insulated from Watergate. The transcripts showed a President creating an environment of deceit and dishonesty, of evasion and coverup. In public, Nixon was pictured as detached, too busy with affairs of state to probe Watergate. In private, the transcripts showed that he wanted to know every detail of the scandal's effect on the press and public. Stratagems were devised; "scenarios" were roughed out and rehearsed. Answers were shaped for questions sure...
...true Irishman, Eugene O'Neill was a connoisseur of illusion and self-deceit. He knew they were not necessarily a poison, but often a nourishment, a kind of grace. The seediest dreams, tended like a campfire, served at least to make the emptier expanses of the soul more habitable. O'Neill explored the idea most thoroughly in The Iceman Cometh, which he wrote in 1939. Two years later, he stated it with a succinct force in Hughie, a one-act play that he planned as part of a series called "By Way of Obit...