Word: truth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...agree about is that you're wrong. In fact, even that statement would probably fetch you a fight in any decent Dublin pub. So before a word is said about the Irish character, let it be stated that very few Irishmen have it. The Irish character, if the truth be told, is a silly joke played on the English, and is only kept around for the sake of the tourists...
...travelling with the President: "Richard Nixon is rather possessed by two thoughts at this stage. He is deeply worried that the nation, as he puts it both publicly and privately, is turning inward, and he feels that his mission in the Presidency is to keep the U.S. great. In truth Nixon really viewed his two speeches as a-one-two punch, a single declaration. The finale of this scenario was to come at Midway...
...engineering brothers ingest technical manuals. The result is that too often the final product resembles nothing so much as a dubbed-in Oriental film. Occasionally, though, a novelist, borne along on his own exquisite and honorable psychological insight, transforms a Western genre into a vehicle for approaching a universal truth...
December 13: The HUC sponsored a special forum on the Paine Hall sitin. SDS members blamed the Administration for its inflexibility, while Faculty members and administrators pleaded for "rational discussion" and denounced "groups that think they own the truth...
...Supperburger] asked if I was bored and lonely here, and that surprised me. I have met a lot of people on the street and never known them to ask something as personal as that right away, I was glad he asked it, so I decided to tell him the truth, which I usually avoid on the subject of boredom and loneliness and I said yes. From then on I felt I was friends with Supperberger...