Word: truth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bladder & Poniard. Next day burly, blue-suited Nye Bevan strode forward. Looking straight at Churchill, he lashed out: "I welcome this opportunity of pricking the bloated bladder of lies with the poniard of truth." Churchill heaved himself to his feet and objected to the word "lies." The bewigged Speaker overruled him. Thereafter Churchill sat back impassively, sometimes as if dozing, and let the waves of invective roll over him. The only sign of anger was the growing pallor of his face...
...truth came out with a minor bang: PEER'S NEPHEW AS FACTORY HAND. Proletarian Mr. Green, it seemed, was simply the pseudonym of socialite Mr. Yorke. After writing most of his first "Henry Green" novel, Blindness, while a schoolboy at Eton, Mr. Yorke had gone up to Oxford, where he soon grew plain "bored." So he had roamed up to Birmingham, where a big engineering firm hired him at ?1 a week. "First I was a sort of storekeeper. Then I passed on to be a pattern maker, later I became a molder, and finally...
...principles of religion, that is of the true religion, are or are not fact. Christ did not live on earth, establish a Church, instruct His disciples to "go forth and teach all nations" if He did not at the same time give them Truth to teach. If any church has that truth and can prove it, as can the Catholic Church, then it is not a question of whether or not the individual can or cannot believe it; for the truth never changes...
Answering the accusation that the doctrine he is teaching is intolerant, he admitted that it was. He said, however,that "all true truth is intolerant." "Only God dares to utter intolerant doctrine," he added...
Radcliffe's President Jordan emphasized the need for a university's untrammeled search for truth in the face of Communism and landed the opportunities of a liberal education in an address given at the First Congregational Church in the exercises marking the formal opening of the college's seventy-first year...