Word: falsehood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dismissal on the ground that the Times doctrine stripped Gilligan of any cause for action. Predictably, Gilligan's lawyer, Roy M. Cohn, countered by claiming that the doctrine does not apply to a minor, nonelected government employee-that Gilligan was entitled to sue on the ground of falsehood without bearing the heavy burden of proving actual malice...
...Your assertion that the Police Department asked for the National Guard on Thursday and that I made no decision until Friday is an unadulterated falsehood. The Chief of Police decided Friday morning that we should ask for the Guard and I immediately concurred. Furthermore, when the Acting Governor signed the necessary proclamation at 5 p.m. Friday, I requested 15,000 men, though the Guard was planning on holding only 2,000 and permitting 7,500 to proceed to Camp Roberts. The Governor had no authority while in Greece. The Acting Governor had to sign the proclamation and order the curfew...
Maggie thrusts herself upon a bewildered Quentin, who quickly sees the falsehood of loving her. "The first honor... was that I hadn't tried to go to bed with her! God, the hypocrisy!... Because, I was only afraid, and she took it for a tribute to her...'value'!" Yet he attempts to bring her "limitless love." And throughout the second act, Maggie's act, Quentin's people punctuate the action of his memory with sudden stares or snatches from past dialogue. At all the accusations, at Maggie's drugged breathing, at Holga's weeping at the ruins of a concentration...
...South's version of Reconstruction blames everything on those vengeful Yankees who rammed their triumph down rebel throats-and implies that until then the rebels were willing to acknowledge the inevitable price of defeat. Stampp's purpose is to expose this version as a falsehood that has graduated, over the years, into a Southern mystique. His book presents compelling arguments that Selma is the predictable heritage of a South that, though losing a war, at once conspired to evade the moral indemnity that was its toll...
Kuchel did not learn of the accusation until October, when his Los Angeles office came into possession of a copy of the affidavit. The Senator denounced the document as "a monstrous falsehood," demanded an investigation by Los Angeles police. They reported that they had no record of any such arrest. Neither did the FBI, said Director J. Edgar Hoover in a personal letter to Kuchel. Kuchel then demanded criminal proceedings, which resulted in last week's indictments...