Word: liar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Word. On the TV screen, Taft at first seemed to take these charges calmly. But Sokolsky's temper had a lower ignition point. Tossing his mane, he shouted indignantly: "I resent very much anyone giving the impression that Senator Taft is a liar, and if I were Senator Taft I would rise now and leave this program . . . Only scoundrels lie. And the word 'lie' is a bad word, and when a man impugns the truth of another man, he places himself outside good manners, and I resent...
Last week, on Abraham Lincoln's birthday, Sergeant Cornelius H. Charlton was posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. "The death of my boy," said his father, "distinctly makes a liar out of Paul Robeson and others who have said the Negro will not fight for our country. Those. . . who have felt that the Negro is a second-class citizen must know in their hearts that...
Home on leave from his post as U.S. consul and diplomatic agent at Tangier, the gaunt, silver-haired diplomat testified publicly last week in his own defense. Budenz, he told Senator McCarran's Internal Security subcommittee, was a liar; and we "cannot defend democracy with perfidy or defeat Communism with lies." Four days of questioning revealed little to support Budenz' charge...
Whodunit? The whole story gave Washington the political shakes. Harry Truman virtually called Krock a liar. Said Truman: "There's not a word of truth in it-that's my only comment." Snapped a spokesman at Ike's headquarters: "purely fictional." Krock stuck by his guns and identified his source as an "eminent Northern Democrat" who is "thoroughly reliable and informed...
...Dunlap, "You're not fit to hold public office," and for half an hour berated him with a steady stream of vituperation heard plainly by passers-by in the corridor outside. "You are the most despicable man I ever met," he yelled. "You are a filthy, dirty liar and crook. I'm going to run you out of Washington if it's the last thing I ever do. You are crucifying an innocent...