Word: liar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...disadvantage," Edwin Ginn '18, a Boston tinancier, charged in 1956 when he resigned as the Class of 1918's representative to the Harvard Fund Council. Ginn, protesting the appointment of J. Robert Oppenheimer '26 as William James Lecturer, called the famous scientist "a known Communist sympathizer and confessed liar in a matter of espionage." Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R-Wis.) also challenged then-President Nathan M. Pusey's appointment of Oppenheimer, whom McCarthy considered a "security risk...
Hardballing it to the end, Ben Bradlee insisted that any fail-safe system could not protect against "a pathological liar." On its editorial page, however, the Post concluded: "It seems to all of us around this newspaper that warning bells of some kind should have sounded." Some did, and were not listened...
...week a Maricopa County grand jury charged him with 14 counts of lying before one of the bar's committees. Ironically, in his reaction to the indictment, Kleindienst recalled, consciously or not, a famous denial made by his onetime boss Richard Nixon. Said Kleindienst: "I am not a liar...
...made several payoffs to Anthony Provenzano, a Mafia chieftain and Teamsters Union boss. But after examining 90,000 canceled checks and a similar amount in invoices at Donovan's firm, the FBI could find no corroboration for Picardo's charge. Donovan called his accuser "a pathological liar and murdering slime." Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch noted that Donovan's nomination had been "one of the most rigorously scrutinized in our country's history," but he expressed some lingering unease. "If any of these allegations prove to be true," he told Donovan, "it'll be one miserable...
Next time someone preaches that "every vote counts," call him or her a fool, a liar, or simply naive. I waited in line 1½ hours at my neighborhood elementary school to vote for a candidate who, three time zones away, had already conceded defeat. What a patriotic dilemma! Should I stay in line and vote anyway...