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Word: liar (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...Legislative Yuan, some called Wu a liar and a coward. In Evanston, Wu replied: "I know that we cannot afford to wash our dirty linen abroad . . . But if the National Assembly wants me to tell the facts . . . I'm prepared to back up my statements any time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FORMOSA: Suggestions from Stockholders | 3/8/1954 | See Source »

...cleaners in Kenya ("Hut to hut?" somebody asks), but actually they are off to swing a big uranium swindle. Stranded at a small Italian port while their steamer makes repairs, the six fall in with a discreetly bogus British peer Edward Underdown) and his wife (Jennifer Jones), a virtuoso liar who spends nost of the picture in a state of cadenza...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 8, 1954 | 3/8/1954 | See Source »

...principals, Jennifer Jones, her hair blonded for the occasion, does the best with the best part&−she manages to catch the mystic fervor of the truly creative liar. Bogart and Lollobrigida are a little too surface-smooth with their lines, suggesting sometimes that underneath the words they do not really know what they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 8, 1954 | 3/8/1954 | See Source »

...general terms of land reform and of law and order. Communists hooted, shouted and heckled: "Murderer, swindler, cheat." It took Scelba two hours to read a 45-minute speech. It was worse in the Chamber a few hours later. The Reds rose as though by signal, screamed. "Faker, liar! for shame!" and stomped out of the hall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Asking for Trouble | 3/1/1954 | See Source »

...Loyalty a churl-and Liar a gentleman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Case for Christendom | 2/15/1954 | See Source »

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