Word: liar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next day at his press conference, the President of the U.S. lashed back, calling MacArthur, in effect, a liar. Snapped Harry Truman: It's not based on fact. Then he added, with all the deliberateness which the jutted Truman jaw connotes, that the general knew it. It was the first time that Truman took direct issue with MacArthur, by name, since the famous firing...
When the Forrestal statement was printed last week in the newspapers, Wallace published a scorching denial. "This is a lie," he wrote. "I said under oath [in testimony to the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1950] that there was a leaking liar in the Cabinet and the President agreed ... I do not wish to quarrel with a dead man or his widow and children. Their husband and father wished very much to see me a few months before he died . . . Undoubtedly at that time he was trying to set his spiritual house in order. May God rest...
...running such expose articles for over a year now. One of the first was "That Man Budenz" in the November 1950 issue, describing the virtues of professional ex-Communist Louis Budenz. Unfortunately columnist Joseph Alsop has just turned up evidence showing Budenz to be little less than an outright liar under oath...
...much of it that last week he had it framed and hung on the wall. The first half was a parody on the Alsops' country-club-voice-of-doom style and their long battle against ex-Defense Secretary Louis Johnson. The column's title: JOHNSON IS A LIAR BUT ON THE OTHER HAND . . . Wrote Krock...
...report of this, the first successful Caesarean operation in the U.S. For, said he, other doctors would never believe that a woman could survive this hazardous operation, done in the backwoods of Virginia, and he was "damned if he'd give them a chance to call him a liar...