Word: half-truth
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Gaitskell accused Butler of deliberately misleading Britons with his talk of Tory prosperity. "Always an expert on evasion, he has become an addict of the easy half-truth." The Socialist's peroration was one of the bitterest personal attacks the House of Commons has heard since the Churchill-Bevan feuds. "I bear [the Chancellor] no personal animosity,'' Gaitskell said. "But his record in this past year is frankly deplorable . . . He began in folly, he continued in deceit, and he has ended in reaction . . . Let him go to the Prime Minister and . . . lay down the burden...
Editorial board teaching will include all well-known technics of half-truth, Ciceronian distortion, and THE BIG LIE, with special emphasis on "Guilt by Association...
When the Massachusetts Commission on Communism early in June published the names of 85 alleged local Communists, the list was immediately at-tacked as verging on half-truth and insinuation...
...myths" of Christianity (TIME, Jan. 24 et seq.) In the current weekly Commonweal, British Correspondent Michael P. Fogarty, a Roman Catholic, argues that Mrs. Knight actually struck a blow for Christianity in Britain. He adds: "the idea that Britain is a 'Christian country' is at best a half-truth . . . There is a mass of what [have been called] 'four-wheeler Christians, people who arrive in the church only in pram, car or hearse, for their christening, marriage and burial.' There is much distrust ... of what are said to be the reactionary and hypocritical views of professed...
Next day Bevan addressed the House. As always, the House listened with fascination to the Welsh lilt and the demagogic half-truth. He was not against German rearmament, Bevan insisted, but "the pace and altitude of that armament...