Word: lies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gigantic lie that higher wages mean higher prices and higher prices mean inflation. This is the Hitler technique of the big lie...
Before Oppenheimer went to Washington from New Mexico to testify, a newspaperman asked him whether the atomic bomb had any significant limitations. Said he: "The limitations lie in the fact that you don't want to be on the receiving end. If you ask, 'Can we make them more terrible?' the answer is yes. If you ask: 'Can we make a lot of them?' the answer is yes. If you ask: 'Can we make them terribly more terrible?' the answer is probably...
...retraction did not satisfy New York's fiery Fiorello LaGuardia. Said he, in his Sunday radio chat: "The whole story was a mean, deliberate, cowardly lie. . . . It was published knowing it to be entirely false" . . . was retracted only "after some 14 to 20 large advertisers" squawked...
...daily diet as well as the industrial prosperity of almost all of Europe may depend on the recommendations contained in Elliott's report. The fate of UNRRA of our financial policy to Britain, and of our industrial rehabilitation or demobilization of Germany may all lie between its leather covers...
Sexy Females. Wonder Woman is written by "Charles Moulton," who is really a psychologist named William Moulton Marston, famed as inventor of the "lie detector." Harvardman Marston (A.B., LL.B., Ph.D.) has a theory that in the next hundred years the U.S. will drift toward an Amazonian matriarchy. He invented Wonder Woman to educate his fellow men to their fate. Says he: "Men actually submit to women now, they do it on the sly with a sheepish grin because they're ashamed of being ruled by weaklings. Give them an alluring woman stronger than themselves to submit to and they...