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Word: liar (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...selling vegetables. He guards the living space and grows bitter. "They come around now telling us to go back home, we are free, the country belongs to the Africans. But the guerrillas still have guns. The war will never stop, and whoever says we're safe is a liar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Whoever Says We're Safe Lies | 4/30/1979 | See Source »

...reporting U.S. atrocities in Viet Nam to his superiors. Herbert sued Producer Barry Lando, Correspondent Mike Wallace, CBS and the Atlantic Monthly (which published Lando's account of his investigation of Herbert) for a total of $44.7 million, claiming that he was made to look like a liar. During more than a year of exhaustive pretrial discovery, Lando sat through 26 sessions that produced 2,903 pages of transcript. He answered questions about what he knew or had seen, whom he interviewed and what he had learned. But he refused to tell Herbert's lawyers about his conversations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: The Mind of a Journalist | 4/30/1979 | See Source »

...volunteers Ken Elaine, a retired cannery superintendent and a descendant of 1884 presidential candidate James G. Elaine, once accused of perjury and thereafter known as the "continental liar from the state of Maine." "We have less and less interest in each succeeding election. Things don't get better no matter who's in the White House. I looked for ward to a comfortable retirement. It won't be. I just retired and already I'm dipping into assets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New Hampshire: Here We Go Again | 3/26/1979 | See Source »

...wrong, but lacking a plan they voted for candidates on the spur of the moment. Driscoll was destined to be the first victim of the angry club members. They quickly nominated and elected Skip Stern '81 who called Stanton "hopelessly ineffective as president" and said Driscoll "is a liar if he denies that a slate exists." He later withdrew his comments about Driscoll and nominated him for another position. Stern resigned his position as treasurer last Wednesday, saying he was too busy to do an effective job and "just ran to prove a point...

Author: By David E. Sanger, | Title: Democrats in the State of Nature | 3/2/1979 | See Source »

...Moonies were out in force on Capitol Hill last week. Outside the Russell Building the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's disciples had a band oompahing in protest; inside, they packed the gallery, unleashing standing ovations, boos and shouts of "Liar!" as they thought the testimony warranted. The occasion was an unofficial hearing on "cults," presided over by Republican Senator Robert Dole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Cult Wars on Capitol Hill | 2/19/1979 | See Source »

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