Word: half-truth
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...Japanese "fadeback" from Manila proved to be illusory. The enemy, it appeared, had not flatly lied when he boasted that the city was being fortified for resistance block by block, building by building; he had merely told a half-truth. It was not true in the northern sector of Manila, on the right bank of the Pasig River; it was all too true of the southern sector, on the left bank...
Mulish sterility is an old slander of this branch of the Equidae, based on a half-truth. The couplings of mule and mule are fruitless (the genetic grounds: incompatibility of chromosomes). But as in the case of Farmer Vermaak's sport, a mule mare now & then carries her own dam's chromosomes-and once in some 200,000 encounters meets the stallion that has her (germ-cell) number...
...gospel. In Fausset's opinion, Whitman never quite succeeded in being either poet or evangelist. He wrote some great poetry and some amazingly energetic verse. But on the whole, he shrank even from such responsibilities as he was equipped to recognize. He perceived a great number of democratic half-truths. He lacked the intellectual equipment or spiritual stamina to make the half-truth whole. Reason: Whitman, the man, was never really whole...
...infantry, sea and air engagements, if as consistently heroic as here reported, would have backed the Nazis off the Atlantic coast long ago. Gummy on every page with the fancy frosting of party journalists, The Voice of Fighting Russia is a sort of mirror maze in which truth and half-truth interreflect...
...every misrepresentation or half-truth on the front page of the typical metropolitan daily were blacked out, how much reading material would be left? Last year members of the Psychology Department, on the track of meat for class-room consumption, constituted themselves into a committee, presumably impartial, to study distortion of news in eight Boston newspapers. Equipped with rulers and calculating machines, the psychologists chose the fight over repeal of the Arms Embargo last fall as an issue suitable for study and began to add inches. To no one's great surprise, most of the dailies were found...