Word: liar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sacred tribal memories of the bloody fighting between Boer and Briton. Thus last week, in the midst of a parliamentary debate, Defense Minister Piet Botha declared that there were elements of the predominantly English United Party "who hate the Afrikaner." An opposition member replied, "You're a scandalous liar," and walked out. One M.P. addressed another as "the Honorable Maggot." Other Afrikaner members of the ruling National Party carried on the verbal war, calling English M.P.s "Baboons" and "Jingoes...
...involves dwarfs anything produced in an average Broadway season. But the American theatrical Indian has always been of the Tonto variety, the faithful Indian sidekick, a caricature with almost no resemblance to reality. In Kopit's Indians, the white man becomes the caricature, the braggart soldier and cowardly liar, an image all too close to what he really...
Patricia Welch, one of the waitresses, was ejected from the courtroom in an emotional scene after she called Cronin a liar. Cronin had said that the waitresses had bargained in bad faith at the January 26 meeting and had been planning a strike for the next day regardless of the outcome of the negotiations...
When it gets a chance to cross-examine Douglas, the defense will make the most of such reports. To offset the damaging evidence in the letters the strategy will be to discredit Douglas, the self-confessed liar. That may not be too difficult. Even Boyd's father once said of his son: "He has told so many lies, practically all his life, that I can't believe anything he says...
...alternative presents himself: the Court Liar, a wretch who earns his wine by reciting absurdities about lands so cold that water turns hard and men's skins are white. He is quick, deadly; he kills two soldiers with a spear; the princess is fascinated; he unsettles her lewdly with suggestions of non-incest; he talks of dominion over all the king doms of the valley, and has the wit, while breaking tradition, to wrap him self in new myth; he is the quick, stinging Scorpion God. She is tempted. Egypt begins...