Word: falsehood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stronger than ever. The almost unbearable tension in American academic and civil-service life at the present time springs from the intransigence of Senator McCarthy on the one hand, but on the other hand from the widespread adherence, amongst the younger university men in America, to the monstrous falsehood (and to the belief in a totalitarian state, which it implies) that all human actions, political, cultural or religious, arise ultimately from economic causes...
...saying that "You can't teach an old dog new tricks," said Dr. Stieglitz, is a falsehood spread by young men who want their elders out of the way and by lazy oldsters who want an excuse for doing nothing...
...share the profound concern of the American people at the existence of an international conspiracy whose goal is the destruction of our cherished institutions . . . Three of its principles in particular are abhorrent to us: the fomenting of worldwide revolution as a step to seizing power; the use of falsehood and deceit as normal means of persuasion; thought control-the dictation of doctrines which must be accepted and taught by all party members. Under these principles, no scholar could adequately disseminate knowledge or pursue investigations in the effort to make further progress toward truth . . . No person who accepts or advocates such...
...Israeli minister in Moscow was summoned before Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky and handed an angry note. "Malefactors with the obvious connivance of the police engineered [the] explosion," it said. "It is quite obvious . . . that the declarations and apologies of the Israeli government ... are a falsehood aimed at covering up." The conclusion: "The Soviet government . . . breaks off relations with the Israeli government...
Another sharp warning of retaliation came last week from Defense Secretary Robert A. Lovett. Angrily denouncing the Reds' "abominable, malicious falsehood" that the U.S. is using disease germs and poison gas in Korea and China, Lovett said: "The Communist techniques . . . have usually been to charge someone else in advance with the crime they propose to commit." Then he added: If he Reds try bacteriological or poison-gas war, they will "open up a vast area which the decent world has abstained from using, [and] if they do, they'll lose just the same-they'll just wish...