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Word: falsehood (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bored. Not until they got bored, but until I got bored." Last week Jack Paar, henceforth answerable to NBC's brass for any serious assaults upon Winchell, trotted out the photo and a sour-prefaced retraction. Though "happy to set the record straight," Paar recalled a "complete falsehood" that Winchell had hung on Paar in 1955 and had never corrected. (The squib: "Friends of the Jack Paars ... are worrying".) "Most damaging to any family man," snapped Jack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Titans of Babel | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

...constant joy to be sure you know what he means by what he is saying. Even in reading Russell's most complex and difficult treatises, one never suspects him of trying to avoid an issue by throwing up a meaningless verbal smokescreen that will hide the obvious banality or falsehood of his views on certain points. This is the result of that slow, painful climb toward greater intellectual clarity which has been the life-work of Russell and his colleagues, Moore and Wittgenstein, and which some contemporary writing is doing so much to negate. Thus in the first volume...

Author: By John E. Mcnees, | Title: The Life of Bertrand Russell: Apologia for Modern Paganism | 4/28/1958 | See Source »

...according to his own judgment. Those who ask for a lie-detector test in order to prove they are speaking the truth must find other means of convincing inquirers. Otherwise, the point will come when anyone who refuses a lie-detector test will automatically feel accused of falsehood. A true reply must be freely spoken-not spoken under the pressure of certainty that untruths will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Words & Works | 4/21/1958 | See Source »

...exist is a feeling not particular to the CRIMSON alone. Many students would undoubtedly agree. Yet it is disheartening to realize that the CRIMSON will reach such depths in its verbal campaign to bury the Council that it will misinterpret Council meetings and, indeed, print bare falsehood...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A CLARIFICATION | 11/22/1957 | See Source »

...heroism. You are not heroes on the newsstands for having caused incalculable bloodshed, but heroes in truth because you have, in modest obscurity, renounced a hero's dream, clothed in the attractive gay mantle of glory. You are heroes in truth, and despite all distortions, hypocrisies, illusions and falsehood, truth is still true in this winter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Cardinal & the Commissar | 5/20/1957 | See Source »

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