Word: liar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...told reporters in Berlin that his stay in Moscow has been one of "icy cold" isolation, little different from the treatment he got in Nazi Germany back in 1941 when he was interned as an enemy diplomat. The U.S. Ambassador, snarled Pravda in reply last week, was an "ecstatic liar ... an enemy of the peace and [hence] of the Soviet Union...
Schlesinger, in a telephone interview last night, called Case "an out-and-out liar." He went on to charge that Case was merely parroting a "mess of lies handed out to him by the Republican committee...
...Like all gifted men, Colonel* Pearson has a few failings . . . President Roosevelt [called him] a 'chronic liar.' I can't go quite that far. Colonel Pearson sometimes tells the truth . . . It may not be intentional, but it's there . . . I estimate that Baron Munchausen's contemporary counterpart has told no less than two dozen lies about me within the past two years. Assuming I have received only my pro rata share of Baron Pearson's prevarications, this data may be projected to the conclusion that this modern Munchausen has concocted 24 falsehoods about every...
...Counterintelligence, a body which requires gentlemanly behavior of its agents. British spycatchers are not permitted, as Gestapo agents were, to pull out fingernails and toenails, or to crack open stubborn skulls with screw-hoops of steel. In some cases they are not even permitted to call a suspect a liar; they must say politely: "I suggest that your answer to my last question contained certain inaccuracies." Moreover, since no confession obtained under duress is valid in British law, the catcher must take care not to hector or bully his man beyond a certain point. The professional British spycatcher must...
...policeman's voice bellowed, "There is the lying bastard!" The shocked silence was broken by Prescott, who calmly replied, "That's pretty strong, Mr. Ambassador." Said O'Dwyer, "I am calling you what you are in the English language," and repeated it several times, adding "deliberate liar." Then he ordered the reporter from the embassy...