Word: liar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Archer broke down on the witness stand defending her husband, while Coghlan dissolved into sobs several times. When Archer's lawyer accused her of concocting the tale in exchange for $10,000 from the News, Coghlan burst out, "You are a liar." At one point, after Coghlan testified that the man she said was Archer had had a pimply back, Mrs. Archer forthrightly declared that her husband possessed "excellent skin." Archer, who did not show his back as evidence, testified that he spent the evening in question dining at a fashionable Mayfair restaurant named Le Caprice. Even the judge seemed...
...suit. He did admit that he had a police record for theft and was in a drug- rehabilitation program, but he said nobody had harassed or threatened Goetz at all. He had just politely asked, "Mister, can I have $5?" Defense Lawyer Barry Slotnick called Canty a "liar...
Alnilam also contains impelling descriptions of aerial combat, though we learn later the stories are probably lies. Significantly, the accusation cannot lessen the imaginativeness of the narration. It is one of Dickey's better stunts: to portray the artist as an inspired liar who can convince us that boats float on grass and a book...
...more than two days at a time except sometimes during Reading Period. (Occasionally I hear from a Black student the following: "I don't think about being Black" or "Being Black is not an issue in my life." These statements, which immediately brand the speaker as either a liar or victim of autism, can be isolated as a corollary to the white student's "I don't think of you as Black"--a phrase whose originator must have thought conferred the equivalent of knighthood...
...Tammy Faye, Bakker informed Nightline Host Ted Koppel and his television audience -- the largest in the show's seven-year history -- that his lethal enemy was the Rev. Jerry Falwell, the televangelist to whom he had entrusted his scandal-stained PTL* ministry last March. Bakker portrayed Falwell as a liar and thief...