Word: liar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...U.S.S. Caine, a four-piper destroyer converted to minesweeping, was a phony and misfit skipper. A pallid little man turning to fat, one of the low men in his Annapolis class, he could handle neither his ship, his officers nor his men. He was a martinet, a liar, a petty tyrant, and, when the chips were down in combat, a coward. On escort duty in the Pacific, all this became painfully obvious, even to a raw ensign like Willie Keith. When a typhoon hit the fleet in the Philippine Sea in December 1944, it became plain to all hands that...
...free to concentrate their attention on the song and dance routines. The movie's highlight comes when Astaire and Miss Powell clown their way through a mouthful called "How Could You Believe Me When I Tell You That I Love You When You Know I've Been a Liar All My Life." Also outstanding is an Astaire solo where, aided by a revolving room, he dances on the walls and ceilings in seeming defiance of all laws of gravity...
...best number together, matching the show-stopping caliber of Astaire's clothes-tree dance, is a rowdy comic song with a title that sets some kind of record: How Can You Believe Me When I Say That I Love You When You Know I've Been a Liar All My Life...
...labor man a top-level assistant in his office. An aide declared that Wilson had previously made such an offer with the proviso that the man give the job his full time, but Labor had turned a cold shoulder. A labor spokesman said in effect that Wilson was a liar, no such offer had been made "by personal conversation, mail, telephone, telegram, wigwag or smoke signal...
Thus young (33), brilliant (Phi Beta Kappa), Dartmouth-trained Bill Remington was publicly and legally branded a liar for saying that he had never been a Communist. He was convicted for perjury, but even graver was the implication that he had passed on to fellow Communists secret information to which he had access when he was working for the WPB. Remington was whisked off to jail for the night. Next day, pale but calm, he stood before Judge Noonan and received the maximum sentence for perjury: five years in jail and a $2,000 fine...