Word: falsehood
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...Reed Hospital. Soon Presidential Press Secretary James C. Hagerty's phone began jangling with queries from editors. One of them supplied him with the full Pearson text. When he saw it, Hagerty called a press conference and spent 45 angry minutes taking apart "the most amazing document of falsehood that I have ever''seen." To any of some 80 newsmen who covered the President's trip, the column seemed a distorted mess that the simplest checking would have proved false. Apart from "absolutely and categorically" denying that Ike had suffered "the slightest relapse of any kind...
...Roorback: A defamatory falsehood published for political effect-Webster's. The word comes from a report published in Whig papers on the eve of the 1844 election, attributed to a fictitious Baron Roorback. The report, an unsuccessful attempt to defeat Democratic Candidate (and slaveholder) James K. Polk, charged that a gang of slaves branded with the initials J.K.P. had been seen on their way to Southern markets...
...When I was ten I was told that my beloved brother Lech was killed in the Warsaw uprising for a falsehood. When I was ten I ceased to believe in the hitherto sacred word Fatherland. When I was 15 I ceased to believe in God. God had proved to be an ally of the murderers of Lech. For long hours I knelt in a dark, empty church. The day finally came when the cross became to me only a piece of wood...
...found that the company was tricking debtors into giving information on salaries, jobs, etc. by creating the false impression that it was wanted by the U.S. Government or for a consumer survey. Said FTC: "Two wrongs do not make a right. The stability of business cannot be sustained by falsehood...
...Negroes in the South generally and in Mississippi particularly is propaganda. (Webster's Collegiate Dictionary defines propaganda as, "Any organized or concerted group, effort, or movement to spread particular doctrines, information, etc.") But it does not follow that, as Mr. Halberstam's article implies, propaganda as such is a falsehood or is destructive. And we do not believe that the NAAP's propaganda against the treatment of Negroes in Mississippi can be rightly considered as such...