Word: liar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lorean Defense Attorney Howard Weitzman took the occasion of his victory to denounce Government sting operations generally and the use of operatives like James Hoffman in particular. The jurors, Weitzman said, felt Hoffman was a "liar" and were "offended" by the fact that he was paid about $180,000 in "expenses" for his participation in the De Lorean and other investigations. While criminal witnesses are a "necessary evil," Weitzman believes "they have gotten out of hand; these people are given a license to fabricate and invent...
...book might be: How well did Herbst's friends and admirers really know her? Apparently, not well enough. The misunderstanding is rooted in Herbst's involvement in the Communist Party after 1930. As Langer regretfully relates, when party interests were at stake Herbst was an accomplished liar. On occasion she could deceive herself. In 1930 the writer and her husband John Herrmann journeyed to the U.S.S.R. at the invitation of a party official. When they came home, Herbst plunged into party activities, just short of membership. Herrmann joined up and became a courier of stolen federal documents...
...BOARD OF OVERSEERS. AND WOULD LIKE TO WIN, AND AM SUFFICIENTLY A POLITICIAN TO RECOGNIZE THAT CASTIGATING YOUR ACTION IN CALLING THE POLICE WILL NOT NECESSARILY GAIN ME ALL THE VOTES OF OLD ALUMNI, NONE-THE-LESS, I RUSH HAPPILY TO SAY THAT YOU ARE CONCEIVABLY A LIAR IN PRETENDING HASTE AND NIGHTSTICKS WERE NECESSARY TO SOLVE AN EXPLOSIVE SITUATION FOR WHICH RECENT HISTORY MIGHT HAVE PREPARED YOU WITH MANY AN ALTERNATIVE. SINCE YOUR PHOTOGRAPHS REVEAL YOU AS INCONTESTABLY CLOSE-MOUTHED, I AM SIMULTANEOUSLY RELEASING THE TEXT OF THIS TELEGRAM TO THE HARVARD CRIMSON FOR PUBLICATION. YOURS I HOPE...
...arrangements and special-interest agenda that have locked up our party and this nation for too long." During the same speech in which he apologized to Mondale for his remarks about the ads that never ran, Hart implied that the former Vice President nonetheless is a liar. Accusing Mondale of falsely questioning his commitment to arms control and civil rights, Hart declared, "The fundamental issue still remains, and that is whether a candidate can purposely and consciously continue to say things that he knows not to be true...
...liar and an extortionist," said defense attorney Thomas C. Troy...