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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Afraid? It is an axiom among battle-tried U.S. troops that "anybody who is not scared of bombs and bullets is a damn liar." The Infantry Journal article confirms this contention, says it is as true of the veteran as the green soldier, but it is also true of the enemy. "Germans and Japs get just as scared as Americans and Britons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - MORALE: Why Men Fight and Fear | 1/11/1943 | See Source »

With little more than a bandying of the words "liar" and "rat" by two excited members, the House approved the Government's policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: India's Open Door? | 10/19/1942 | See Source »

...Patterson's editorials are always bluntly to the point. But the News's 2,000,000 readers were startled by a Patterson editorial blunter than usual: "Congressman Holland: You are a liar. Make what you like of that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Joe | 8/24/1942 | See Source »

...father, Alphonse Daudet (Tartarin de Tarascon, Lettres de Mon Moulin, etc.). Léon Daudet's editorials in L'Action were slapstick smacks in which he called his enemies female camels, unfecund sows, burst dogs, humpbacked cats, circumcised hermaphrodites. In a courtroom squabble Daudet once screamed "liar" at an opponent so long & loud that his nose began to bleed. L'Action bragged: "We do not want to upset the Republic; we want to cut its throat. We are not a political party; we are a conspiracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Death of a Conspiracy | 7/13/1942 | See Source »

WASHINGTON-Rep. Hamilton Fish, R., N. Y., today denounced Federal Prosecutor William P. Maloney as a "Liar" during a heated exchange at the District Court trial of George Sylvester Viereck. American citizen registered as a Nazi propagandist. During the fiare-up, Fish said he had no connection with the defendant knew him only as an American citizen, and that "his acquaintance with me was the same as with President Roosevelt...

Author: By United Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 2/21/1942 | See Source »

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