Word: truth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This estimate smells of blackmail-but it also bears the bitter flavor of unpleasant truth. The West has a little time to decide whether Schmid's estimate is correct. But it does not have very long...
...know, had all these good people been when he tried to talk up legislation for slum clearance? If they were looking for slot machines, he could fetch them out of practically every self-respecting lodge hall in town as well as in the joints. Cried Mayor Swartz: "Sometimes the truth hurts...
...much truth there was behind Zenith's cry of changing frequency could only be answered by the FCC in Washington. At week's end, the FCC protested that Chairman Wayne Coy had already discussed the situation in a letter. And so he had, without giving a jot of information. With masterly ambiguity and in pure Federalese, Coy had written: "New developments cannot be scheduled, and therefore it is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to determine when any piece of radio receiving equipment may become obsolete. We are unable, therefore, to make any recommendation regarding the obsolescence of equipment...
...their fears unloose their tongues. Fingal and Pelancey are soon suspected by several people: Pelancey's clerk who overhears their quarrel; his devout cleaning girl, who drags the truth out of him and urges him to confess; Barty's shrewd old mother; and the dead man's former mistress...
Niebuhr used these statements to illustrate his argument that man is not capable of defining an absolute truth. "Whenever he asserts such a truth categorically, he is assuming a power which lies beyond...