Word: falsehoods
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Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth, and thus do we .. .by indirections find directions...
...Positions for Berryman," Peter Shapiro has charged that Professor Kiely "used his influence as master and professor of English over the past two years to help a close friend gain administrative and faculty appointments." Shapiro has carefully selected details, some of which are true, to create an overall falsehood...
...multiple accusations of lying to official investigative bodies is described in even fuller detail in the indictment, though the evidence leading the grand jury to believe that the statements were false is tantalizingly omitted. Several allegations of falsehood are charged even when a defendant testified that he could not recall an alleged act. Such accusations are difficult to sustain without documentary evidence or corroboration by several witnesses, and they are certain to be vigorously attacked by defense attorneys...
...Gulag. Yet he argued for disclosure of "the bloody crimes of the Stalin era documented in the terrifying pages" of Gulag. Echoing one of Solzhenitsyn's recent appeals, the poet wrote: "In our timidity, let each of us make a choice whether to consciously remain a servant of falsehood or to cast off the lies and become an honest man worthy of respect by our children and our contemporaries...
Whether it spreads truth or falsehood, whether it transmits "smoke signals, jungle tom-toms, taps on the prison wall or ordinary conversation," a grapevine is bound to develop wherever people congregate. But employers can keep false rumormongering at a minimum by telling the truth and telling it early. Increasingly, Davis reports, wise managers are trying "to feed, water and cultivate the grapevine" themselves...