Word: distort
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Barry also went out of his way to allay fears that his itchy trigger finger might set off nuclear war. "A major concern of ours," he said, "has been the military security of this nation. Some distort this proper concern to make it appear that we are preoccupied with war. There is no greater political lie. We are preoccupied with peace. We seek a strong America because only a strong nation can keep the peace. I do not intend to be a wartime President...
...matters of politics, it is partisan and untrustworthy. To almost all Goldwater's admirers, the press represents the "Eastern establishment" that is out to get Barry. They think primarily of press, radio and television and its influential New York-Washington base; newsmen are viewed as liberals who distort Goldwater's views and conspire against him. During Goldwater's pre-convention campaign, reporters often met hostile airport crowds, with Goldwater partisans glaring at them and demanding: "Why don't you tell the truth about Barry...
...esthetic vision required enormous feats of selfdiscipline. Davis told how in 1927 he "nailed a rubber glove, an electric fan and an egg beater to a table and, like Monet with his haystack, stuck with that single subject for a whole year." What he learned was how to explore, distort and transform the objects into endless arrangements on the canvas. His aim was abstraction, but his eye was riveted to the real. And what fascinated his eye was everyday America-gas pumps, factories, skyscrapers, movies, kitchen utensils, and "fast travel by train, auto, and airplane, which brought new and multiple...
...wave a copy of the civil rights bill and shout, "Do you see this bill? Have you read it? Do you know what it says?" With hardly any listeners having read the bill, he could then exclaim, "Well, I'll tell you what it says!" and proceed to distort the truth...
...drew good crowds and peppered them with some scathing references to Goldwater's campaign. "There is nothing so powerful as truth," he said. "I think it's just about time we had some truth in this campaign." He called for "an end to the attempt to distort, to deceive and to trick" Republicans into voting for a candidate who did not measure up to such G.O.P. heroes as Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and Eisenhower. Sometimes quoting from Goldwater's Conscience of a Conservative, Rocky ridiculed Goldwater's views on foreign policy, the income...