Word: half-truth
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...President casually said in that same explanation that Elliot Richardson had approved of his "compromise" on the tapes that triggered all the trouble. At best that is a half-truth. A compromise is not a compromise without two parties agreeing, as Cox did not. Neither, in the end, did Richardson...
...this legend is wondrously rich and subtle. For the reader, however, the pleasure of tracing all these connections has a price: care, patience and a knowledge of several previous volumes. One of X. Trapnel's dicta was: "Reading novels needs almost as much talent as writing them." A half-truth, but never truer than with Powell. · Christopher Porterfield
Though the newspaper is universally distrusted by thinking people in the state, it succeeds nonetheless in eroding confidence in leaders and institutions by its daily diet of innuendo, half-truth and venom...
...type, Louisiana's Russell Long, who had shirked his work. But when Ted took over and absented himself frequently to attend to other matters, the club turned against him too. Byrd, as secretary of the Democratic Conference, carried much of Kennedy's load. Thus there was at least a half-truth in Byrd's kindly explanation that "this was not a slap at Kennedy?it was an affirmation of the job I had been doing...
...Tiger (see box), are quick to point out imperfections. "She's not looking for the truth, but making a case," says Rutgers Anthropologist Robin Fox. He says he is no misogynist, but, he charges, she's "inventing a new mythology to replace the old one . . . She's playing ducks and drakes with the truth, and in the process doing herself and her cause a disservice." Specifically, Fox says, Millett's theory that gender identity is imposed by society rather than genes is "a typical half-truth...