Word: liar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tass, the Russian news agency, Benton had a file of its conference dispatches. "If an American or British or French news agency were guilty of such shockingly one-sided, malicious reporting," said he, "the enraged readers would put it out of business. Tass is the official distorter, the official liar of the Soviet government." Lest the Russians miss his point, Bill Benton had copies of his speech passed around to the delegates at Geneva...
...began his press conference by calling Columnist Drew Pearson a liar. The reason: Pearson's charge that the President, in private conversation with an unidentified Manhattan newspaper publisher, had called New York Jews disloyal. Speaking slowly and without heat, Harry Truman told newsmen: "I want to pay attention to a vicious statement . . . it is just a lie out of whole cloth...
Chicago's Tribune fired charges of "hired liar" against William L. Langer '15, Coolidge Professor of History, in its lead editorial last Friday...
...John Hopley, 48, of San Antonio, won the title of World's Champion Liar, awarded annually by the Burlington, Wis. Liars Club. His story: while he and Charley Skorpea were playing pool for the championship of Boggy Creek Bottoms, a fly lighted on the eightball. "Charley chalked his cue-a 47-ounce, solid-oak Brunswick-and knocked the eight-ball out from under the fly so fast that it fell on the table and broke its back...
...Kids of Glen Cove, L.I. gave a Chamber of Commerce Santa Claus a drubbing when his candy gave out and they discovered that the packages on his sleigh were nothing but dummies. Muttered one departing youngster: "Santa Claus is a liar...