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Word: liar (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Drew Pearson thumped the bongo drums for President Fulgencio Batista too fervently. In return, Havana's leading newspapers and magazines last week were busy thumping Pearson. "If Truman called Drew Pearson a liar," declared Mario Kuchilán in Prensa Libre, "he was being generous." Columnist José Pardo Llada, who once hailed Pearson as an "ideal commentator," wrote in Diario National: "Our illustrious friend Drew Pearson has defrauded us." So fulsome was Pearson's praise for the Batista regime that even a Batista booster, Diario National's Luis Manuel Martinez, objected. He called Pearson a "gringo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Pearson in Bongoland | 10/10/1955 | See Source »

...Idol Maker" by Bruce Fearing is the best of a mediocre bunch of stories. A penetrating study of an habitual young liar and his motives for lying, Fearing's story is written and concluded strikingly. His style, however, betrays a small debt to Faulkner ("Jimmy looked at the crude statuette in the palm of his hand. LIAR, LIAR, LIAR, he squeezed it, hoping it would crumble to pieces. . ."), a debt which is hardly concealed by the use of capitals. Although Fearing's story is not likely to live on in anthologies, it is still the best in a rather scant...

Author: By Frank R. Safford, | Title: The Harvard Advocate | 9/28/1955 | See Source »

...Powell's civil-rights efforts, but he feared that this one, by incurring the hostility of certain Southern Congressmen, would result in the death of the whole school-construction bill. Powell's amendment would be fatal, snapped Bailey, and Powell knew it. Retorted Powell: "You are a liar." Thereupon, the scramble started...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Symptom on the Cheek | 8/1/1955 | See Source »

...yelled at the Tory councilmen in her broad Lancashire accent. "We have a Corporation ratcatcher, but he goes for the wrong sort." Once she took a two-foot megaphone into the chamber to help make herself heard. Another time she called a Tory opponent a "deliberate liar," and cheerfully accepted a police escort from the chamber rather than take it back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Battling Bessie | 5/9/1955 | See Source »

...Parker, had more than agreed during the hearing, crying: "Your Honor, the truth ain't in [Dolly]. Astor denies her charges. And I don't think Astor is capable of telling an intelligent lie!" In the apparent belief that Dolly also was not a very bright liar, disgusted Judge Giblin awarded her an unhandsome $75-a-week support money, called it a "$10-a-week raise" over her best paid job (as a Chicago radio-station receptionist) before her Astoriction. He added feelingly: "I'd like to kick her in the fanny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 4, 1955 | 4/4/1955 | See Source »

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