Word: half-truth
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...reason, said Truman, was that "scores of special interests have ganged up together for the purpose of securing special short-run advantages for themselves." Truman was making partisan hay out of a half-truth. Some special interests (e.g., meat) had wangled concessions in the controls bill. But the truth was that the Administration's price-control program had never been designed to really freeze prices rigidly. By his sweeping charge, Truman was blaming somebody else for every penny rise which his own agencies were planning to allow...
Wisconsin's Senator Joe McCarthy gets headlines by what might be termed the dipsy-doodle or slider type of accusation-charges which are so horrible, fascinating or so slick with the tobacco juice of half-truth that the victim often strikes out helplessly while trying to get a clean swing at them. But last week the Senator made headlines because a Columbus, Ohio real-estate man named Bob Byers threw the same kind of verbal trick-ball...
...Peking; from its shrewd businessmen go goods for Communist buyers; out of its newsstands and radio sets gush reams and hours of words from Mao's propagandists-intended not for Western newsmen but for the 463 million Chinese whose every thought the Communists hope to control. Truth and half-truth are there in abundance. The problem is to evaluate, piece together and check reports against material from other listening posts...
Next day the State Department knocked down the Chief's beat; the letter was a fake. Said the State Department: "The alleged letter is not cut out of whole cloth but [is] ingeniously fashioned from fact, half-truth, rumor and inaccuracy." Zabronsky (whose name was misspelled in the letter) had indeed presented Roosevelt with a Scroll of the Torah at the White House, and Roosevelt had written his thanks-but in 1938. By 1943 Zabronsky, a certified public accountant who never left the U.S. during the war, was no longer council president. Another error: Marshal Timoshenko never visited...
...writing can get inside the Communist mind with Koestler's sureness. Inside that mind are all the answers. Koestler no longer believes in those answers, but he remembers that when he did believe in them, he was happy. He hugs the cold comfort of democracy ("a half-truth," as he calls it) and tries not to feel nostalgia for the wholehearted Communist...