Word: liar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Main airport in the midst of a touchy political problem. Germans had been affronted by Ike's 1945 description of them as "arrogant in victory, very polite in defeat." In his first press conference, Ike took the touchy Germans gently by the hand: "I would be entirely a liar if I should say that, at the time of the conflict, I did not bear in my heart a very definite antagonism toward Germany. I had deep antagonisms against the German Nazi regime and all the Nazis stood for." But "for my part, bygones are bygones...
...months Ricardo Balbin, leader of the Radical opposition, had sat in jail for calling the President a "dictator" and a "liar" in a campaign speech (TIME, May 1, Dec. 11). During that time, criticism of such harsh and humorless punishment for a political opponent had risen sharply both at home and abroad. Balbin, more popular than ever before, shouted from his cell: "I have no regrets. I am less a prisoner than those on the outside...
...McCarthy's side was Westbrook Pegler, who has long been in & out of libel suits with Pearson himself. Said Pegler of his longtime foe: "That lying blackguard is my man, just as Harold Ickes was in his time. Santa Claus brought him to me. Pearson is a liar and a rogue and I will belt him through the skylight as a service to my country and my honorable profession of journalism...
...Senate: with a fiercely patriotic air that Henry Clay might have envied (though almost all the seats were empty), he let Pearson have it. The first 17 pages of his typed script were devoted to quotes from 44 people (including Presidents Roosevelt and Truman) who had called Pearson a liar...
After this, the Senator wound up and fogged in his big mudball: Pearson was not only a "greedy, degenerate liar" with a "perverted mentality" but was also a tool of Moscow, fiendishly intent on destroying "the very heart of this Republic." Pearson, he said, was not a card-carrying party member, but he got secret orders from the Reds through an associate, David Karr, whom McCarthy identified as a former writer for the Communist Daily Worker. Furthermore, he cried, Columnist Pearson had been assigned the job of ruining General Douglas MacArthur...