Word: deceits
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...there a man in the magazine or newspaper world who is constitutionally capable of writing a diving story without dragging in "silver and jewels"? Or who can resist employing the old, shameful deceit concerning the value of sunken cargo by citing its insured or market value at the date when it was loaded aboard the ship-new and being awaited by some purchaser whose plans and profits revolved around it? What would be today's value of papermaking machinery made in 1927, valued then at $1,500,-ooo? What would its original consignee give for it, delivered now, even...
...nowhere suggested that his rebel is without sin, pure in his revolt against oppression. But at the end of The Plague he wrote: "There are in man more things to be admired than things to be scorned." Scorn was reserved for death, while man, with all his deceit and selfishness, was always worth the saving of himself...
...nation's most damaging steel strike dragged toward a court-enforced halt, as the television industry sagged under disclosures of mass deceit and wholesale perjury, newsmen were primed with some uncommonly philosophical questions at the President's press conference last week. Essentially, they were asking: Has American society lost its moral vitality...
Stanton said CBS is ready to help formulate new legislation aimed at deceit. But he repeatedly opposed any action resembling censorship...
...many of the characters who had surrounded Van Doren during his 14-week climb toward his $129,000 winnings on NBC's Twenty One told the subcommittee that the show was blatantly rigged until NBC bounced it off the air a year ago. The crassness of the deceit, the number of people involved and the relative gullibility or negligence of network executives were startling...