Word: liar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Calling Stevens a liar, Miss Frick sought to enjoin further sale and publication of the book-an effort that most lawyers viewed as doomed. After all, historians have freely depicted dead persons as they pleased throughout U.S. history. All the same, Miss Frick sued under a 1944 Pennsylvania precedent defining a libel as a publication "tending either to blacken the memory of one who is dead, or the reputation of one who is alive." Though rare, statutes in several states make defamation of the dead a crime. The possibilities of a Frick victory alarmed historians across the country...
...something, but Joe's ambition is to be a khutmul Mao. If you must know, that's a person rich Hindus hire to lie in their beds at home while they go on holiday so the bedbugs will have somebody to bite. Joe's a terrific liar, so you never know when he's kidding around. I mean he's a madman. Joe's always horsing around doing things like converting to Mohammedanism at the lousy military school up in the goddam mountains so he can sleep with his Muslim classmate's sister...
...glanced in the year book for that class and seen such entries as: PBH, Varsity Squash, Varsity Tennis (Captain), Hasty Pudding. Probably not much more could be gleaned from the public records, but any of this at least would have rescued Tim Gallwey from being characterized as a shadowy liar...
...Follow Me," though Heikki explained later that in "Fort Riley" they were not telling people to follow them into war, just sort of telling them about it. After a long discussion with Heikki and Sayre, Dalton said that he received an apology. Sayre later said, "Dalton is a liar; we never made any agreement, and I'll say that to anyone publicly or privately...
...Lindbergh kidnaping case, to show that a number of checks drawn on the ac count had not been signed by Dodd. The Senator himself, otherwise apathetic, was roused to his only really angry outburst of the week by his former bookkeeper. "Mr. O'Hare is a liar," he snapped. "It's as simple as that. He's a liar...