Search Details

Word: falsehoods (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Old Magic | 10/2/1944 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Remember Pearl Harbor | 9/4/1944 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: The Hopkins Letter | 1/31/1944 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: A Disgusting Lie | 12/8/1941 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARING REPORTS PLAN TO CREATE BODY TO IMPROVE PAN-AMERICAN RELATIONS | 12/2/1941 | See Source »

Previous | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 57 | 58 | 59 | Next