Word: falsehood
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...statement, "We can keep people in the Army about as cheaply as we can create an agency for them when they are out." This was "fantastic," said Candidate Roosevelt; he had read it with "amazement." The War Department had announced a plan for speedy demobilization. "This callous and brazen falsehood was, of course, a very simple thing . . . an effort to stimulate fear among American mothers, wives and sweethearts...
Kimmel denied that the Roberts Report contained the "basic truth" about Pearl Harbor, and coldly accused the Vice Presidential nominee of falsehood: "Your innuendo that General Walter C. Short and I were not on speaking terms is not true." He predicted that "our people will be amazed by the truth...
...Webster: "A defamatory falsehood published for political effect." The word was coined after "excerpts" from a non-existent Travels of Baron Roorback were published in 1844 to discredit James K. Polk...
...article in TIME magazine about the President of Chile may have been based on imperfect information and erred otherwise. . . . But a 'disgusting lie' is an accusation of outright, deliberate falsehood. TIME hardly needs any defense from such an accusation even though it issues from the White House."-Boston Herald...
...offensive against the faults of Axis philosophy, particularly falsehood," added Professor Stone, "could be carried on in Spain by the Latin governments where the United States would fall...