Word: liar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...moment, Wright's position in Washington is saturated with acid. Since he became Speaker a year ago, he has unwisely poured out his contempt for Ronald Reagan in dozens of not-so-private gatherings around town. Wright has called the President a "liar" and worse. White House aides, no strangers to bile, whispered again last week, "Jim Wright is a mean-spirited snake-oil salesman, and nobody wants to deal with him." On the Nicaraguan flap, Wright and Secretary of State George Shultz grandly staged their own truce negotiations, but that hardly dispels what one Congressman calls a "reservoir...
Philadelphia's mayoral contest was the most closely watched municipal election, a costly, racially tinged campaign in which Goode, a Black, sought to hold off a comeback by former Democratic mayor-turned-Republican Rizzo. The bitter campaign cost an estimated $3.7 million, as each candidate called the other a liar in their quest to govern the "City of Brotherly Love...
...July 18, 1978, Jackson ignored Martin's instructions to bunt in a game. Jackson was suspended for five days. Martin continued to show anger at his star player and on July 23 at O'Hare Airport in Chicago, Martin said of Jackson and Steinbrenner: "One's a born liar; the other's convicted...
...Ogre looms over Karen's desk, throws down her latest report and thunders that while she may pretend she's turned around the El Paso situation, she is not fooling him. Karen's jaw drops, her head woggles in disbelief, and her voice quavers, "Are you calling me a liar...
...some of Casey's men share their chief's admiration for North. Alan Fiers, who worked with North on the contra-resupply operation as chief of the CIA's Latin American Task Force, told the committees, "I never knew Colonel North to be an absolute liar, but I never took anything he said at face value...