Word: dishonestly
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...Cabinet member's objections to a hostile newspaper article, le President observed: "If you are a minister, you do not complain about newspapers. You don't even read them. You write them." When an other Cabinet minister protested that a younger colleague was unscrupulous, intellectually dishonest and immoral to boot, De Gaulle cut him short with the observation: "That's comforting! I thought ministers were capable of nothing...
...fills the stage with great performers and offers four or five songs with the authentic lilt and magic of Irving Berlin at his ultimate best, Mr. President is in dreadful shape at the present time. Dreadful is the only word; anything milder would be misleading, not to say dishonest. The further it goes, the more cumbersome and implausible it becomes, and long before the end it is bogged down in tedium. Never has Berlin written so many corny songs." Robert Ryan, as the President of the U.S.. turns out to resemble only Robert-not Harry, Herbert, Jack, Ike, Franklin...
...great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - deliberate, contrived and dishonest-but the myth-persistent, persuasive and unrealistic." Kennedy categorized the myths: Big Government. "Let us take first the question of the size and shape of Government. The myth is here that Government is big and bad-and steadily getting bigger and worse." Not so, said the President. "For the fact is for the last 15 years the Federal Government, and also the federal debt, and also the federal bureaucracy, have grown less rapidly than the economy as a whole . . . The truth about big Government...
...lunching with Republican Congressmen. He said his Administration had played no favorites in administering the stockpile program, a program which, he emphasized, "operated under laws that existed long before I got there." As for George Humphrey, Ike remained a fervent admirer. Said he: "If Secretary Humphrey ever did a dishonest thing in his life, I'm ready to mount the cross and you can put the nails and spear...
...Volpe talks as if he's the only decent man in Massachusetts politics," McLaughlin continued, "Well, he isn't. I resent the inference that everyone who is a Democrat is dishonest...