Word: liar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...press release even before we met. Then he asked if I'd go out to have a photograph taken with him. I said I certainly would mind. And I said, "If you ever say anything that's a lie again, I'll brand you a liar again." Strange to say, he never attacked the Bureau again for as long as he lived...
...zone along the Suez Canal. The U.S. is also disappointed that Moscow has refused to exert pressure on North Viet Nam and the Viet Cong to be more reasonable at the stalled peace talks in Paris, where Hanoi's Chief Delegate Xuan Thuy last week called Nixon a liar. Washington is especially upset, however, over the case of the captive U.S. generals, whose unarmed Beechcraft blundered off course on a flight in Turkey and was forced down by MIGs in Soviet Armenia (TIME...
...Poor 300-year-old beauty! People took her for a thief, for a liar, for a heartless animal. They called her beast, slut, they wanted to strangle her. And her fault? That she was doomed to live too long a time. I was sorry...
...When all has been said about Nasser, history may eventually come round to characterizing him as a "congenital liar" as early as the Suez crisis in 1956. History may even record that, charisma or no, the trail of debacles that marked the "progress" of this kiss-and-stab leader could be hallowed only by a people whose emotional orientation is permeated with no small measure of masochism. As for Nasser's ousting of the British from Egypt in the 1950s, it now remains for some more charismatic pharaoh to tackle the sterner task of, ejecting the Tovarish from...
...liar without equal." It is ironic that at the time of his death he had evolved into a patient mediator, seeking to settle the quarrels that flared interminably among his fellow Arabs. He even seemed to have abandoned the dream that had prompted the conspiracy: transforming all the Arab League nations into socialist governments that would function as a kind of consortium, presumably with Egyptians at the head...