Word: liar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Foley, outspoken foe of Atkinson, who recently called the City Manager "a liar" in front of the Council, commented that "I'm liable to vote for him at any time." Sennott was unavailable for comment...
...York Daily News Columnist John O'Donnell, who likes to remind readers that he was called a liar by Franklin D. Roosevelt, last week announced that he had made President Truman's list too. O'Donnell found out about his nomination from South Carolina's Governor
Journalist Treiber had made a dreadful mistake: Pankow is in the Russian sector of Berlin, not as he had thought in one of the Western sectors. When Freies Volk discovered Treiber's error, it quickly printed an abject retraction: "Rudi Treiber has been unmasked [and fired] ... as a liar and an agent provocateur." Said ex-Comrade Treiber lamely: "I just didn't know where Pankow...
...party meeting, Bevan taunted Attlee by saying, "Clem, you're a liar." Attlee sputtered back: "You are!" At that warm moment, Tom O'Brien, leader of the studio and theater workers' union, broke in: "May I propose that we transfer this meeting to Westminster Hall where we can have a brass plaque inserted in the floor to record for history, 'On this spot, the Labor Party committed suicide, aided and abetted by Clement Attlee and Aneurin Bevan...
...this time, Senator Taft had begun to show resentment, too. McCrary had called him a liar, he said, and he demanded that McCrary "withdraw that statement." McCrary denied calling anyone a liar, and he refused to withdraw anything. Faye, smiling through incipient tears, suggested that everyone had reached "a pretty irreconcilable point," but she couldn't silence her bickering guests in time for more than a hasty sign-off announcement...