Word: half-truth
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...other children were playing drop the handkerchief, the teacher first made an effort to entice or force him into the more social activity, and if this failed, she sent out a call for the school psychologist...The statement that education is a social process is a dangerous and misleading half-truth. Some education is social; some education must be solitary and individual...
...groups newly hatched expressly to gain clemency for a brace of convicted spies. On the other, and at this writing far ahead, are those who are seeking to solve the Far East problem by assigning blame for it. Their technique is to serve up a murky stew of half-truth and hindsight, then immerse a handful of Asia experts in it. Owen Lattimore is already up to his neck, and Service, Vincent, Clubb, etcetera have at least had their feet burned. What this will accomplish to relieve tension in the Far East is incomprehensible to us, but perhaps...
...less accepted doctrine in the West that "time works for the Russians," in the sense that if they only sit back, let the Communist parties abroad conspire away, and rely on the West's usual quota of blunders, they will eventually get what they want. This is a half-truth, at best. In the past year the U.S. and its allies have shown dangerous weakness and confusion, and the Russians have made some gains, but the Kremlin may feel that they are not big enough to warrant the economic, political and military expenditures made. Russia, in fact, faces...
...couldn't help showing it. They felt that he was somehow on their side. Alben Barkley was really on everybody's side: he was Mr. Democrat, the personification of a kind of comradeship that binds together the dissident bundles in the Democratic Party. There was a half-truth, but a deep half-truth, in the campaign placard: "North, South, East, West, all agree Barkley best." All would have agreed, at that point, that Barkley was second best...
...five years, and no one should want to see them glossed over. But when all the disagreeable facts are assembled and presented as a description of the state of American liberty, then a fraud has been perpetrated . . . What we have here in the Nation is no more than a half-truth, perhaps no more than a tenth part of the truth. From the Nation one gets the impression that individual liberty today must rely for its defense on a heroic and beleaguered little band marshaled by [Nation editors] Freda Kirchwey and Carey McWilliams...