Word: fact
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact, the authors say in their exhaustive--even tedious--catalogue of quotes, Charles Boyer never invited anyone to the Casbah. Sherlock Holmes never chided his sidekick with the words, "Elementary, my dear Watson." And Will Rogers never said he never met a man he didn't like...
...make it. Philip Sheridan, for instance, is often credited with having said, "The only good Indian is a dead Indian." The quote stems from an account of the meeting between Sheridan and Commanche leader Toch-a-way. Sheridan denied having made the statement, but who would not--after the fact...
...Fact is, the ad was chock-full of sugar-coated truth, half-truths and outright untruths. But don't take my word for it--a council member told me that the ad was "the biggest load of horseshit I've ever seen...
Late in the second half, sophomore midfielder Jeremy Amen looked like a man protecting his turf. And, in fact...
Popular works are also receiving attention. This spring, in the same week that The Times printed a Yale student's defense of her senior thesis under the headline "Donald Duck, in Fact, Can Teach Students a Lot," Stephen King spoke at Harvard and was compared by Richard C. Marius, director of the Expository Writing program, to Henry James and Edgar Allan...