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...cream bricks. Another result of the wrangle was a fine little boy who was born speaking high-school French. For respectability's sake Cheryl has always tried to claim that I was in some way responsible for little Andre's occurrence, but I know this to be a falsehood. For one thing, no one in my family has ever been interested in picking up empties on Mondays and Thursdays. Besides that, I've been saving it, you know, until I get married. If I didn't, who would want...

Author: By Peter Kaplan, | Title: Candy is randy but pasta is fasta | 12/8/1976 | See Source »

...more pernicious than this falsehood is the patronizing attitude underlying the bill. The disadvantaged in rural America are entitled to have doctors to cure their flu and deliver their babies but, the bill implies, they should have their own people serve them and not distract the rest of us from our more socially significant specialization and research...

Author: By Diane Sherlock, | Title: Redistribution of Health | 11/1/1976 | See Source »

...Schmidt had "lost control 50 of himself." In a final campaign bout last week, Schmidt and Kohl traded invectives during a four-hour television debate which consisted largely of mudslinging. "Your actions cannot be those of a normal being," growled Kohl. "What you're saying is total, shameless falsehood, which doesn't surprise me," fumed Schmidt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: Noisily Down to the Wire | 10/11/1976 | See Source »

...cheaters honestly do not think that they are doing anything wrong. They believe they have paid into the unemployment compensation system, and thus are entitled to get their own money back. That is a falsehood; the system is funded by a tax on employers and by federal subsidies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Cheating on Unemployment | 9/13/1976 | See Source »

...journalism, where would the advocates get the facts with which to advocate? It's a compliment [to conventional journalism] and I'm glad we have it. I think there should be considerable care used by the alternative press to be certain that in advocating they do not go into falsehood...

Author: By Richard Smith, | Title: The Politician Behind the Performer | 5/24/1976 | See Source »

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