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...aceteylene blow torches for instance--future generation of Harvard men will return from a victory over Princeton and Yale soberly or otherwise, as the case may be, tack their program covers to the wall in deference to the tradition of while goal posts their predecessors fostered. Perhaps a dishonest few will sneak behind the Stadium and knock down the wooden goal posts on the practice field. Perhaps others will chip away the concrete in the Stadium itself. Or there might be a sudden rash of postgame helmet thefts...

Author: By David L. Halberstam, | Title: The Goalposts: Sic Transit Gloria | 9/28/1954 | See Source »

...like to express my hope that the American press, radio and other organizations will support the efforts of all honest men in their struggle for peace, international security and friendship." Growled the New York Daily News: "When Vishy smiles, watch out . . . A tipoff that [he] will be meaner, more dishonest and fouler-mouthed than ever before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 6, 1954 | 9/6/1954 | See Source »

Cohn drove his sharpest verbal barb at Adams when telling about Adams' telephone call to ask why Cohn had been ducking him. "I told Mr. Adams," Cohn calmly related, "I believed that he had been thoroughly dishonest. He asked me what I meant ... I told him that he had directly or indirectly made a blackmail threat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Defendant | 6/7/1954 | See Source »

...knowing the background of a private and personal letter to my wife written by me in 1949. This was "leaked" to the press on April 14 by what news services called a "reliable source." America's strength at home and prestige abroad is being damaged by dishonest political attacks on our scientists. I have worked hard to minimize this damage to national security. Under stress of difficult conditions, I was led privately to consider doubts about Oppenheimer which I never stated publicly, which I soon learned were wholly unjustified, and which I now publicly repudiate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 17, 1954 | 5/17/1954 | See Source »

...other participants combined. With every McCarthy point of order went an speech, in almost every speech there was at least one slur, and every slur invoked one or more answers. When Secretary of the Army Stevens was on the witness stand, McCarthy spoke about witnesses who are "flagrantly dishonest." Sneering at his good friend from Idaho, Republican Senator Henry Dworshak, McCarthy announced that his first choice as an substitute for himself was actually Maryland's Republican Senator John Marshall Butler. McCarthy snarled: "Senator But ler was not feeling well. I now wish he had been feeling well. Because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: To the Point of Disorder | 5/10/1954 | See Source »

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