Word: truth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with the tutor. My friends, at the tutor's request, then spent over an hour recounting the evening's events. They described the hatred that came out of their mouths as honestly as they described the offensive language hurled at them. What that tutor and I heard was the truth...
They made homophobia the issue. I now make sexual harassment the issue; it was the issue which created the confrontation, and it is an issue which should not have been suppressed. Homophobia has been highlighted while truth was forced to squirm in the sidelight. The perpetrator of the sexual harassment has become a hero of the cause unjustly, and undeservingly...
Hernandez denied that the FMLN has drawn communist support. "Well, truly until now that has been the propaganda of the U.S. government and El Salvador," Hernandez said. "But in truth, in the 10 years of FMLN, no one can find proof that we've received aid from Cuba or Russia...
WHENEVER a myth is destroyed, something wonderful happens--a little bit of truth is revealed...
...profane and satirical treatment of Islam's origins is guaranteed to offend any true Muslim. Rushdie points out that his work is fictional and the two most offensive chapters merely recount the demented dreams of one of its characters. But in the eyes of believers, both historical and religious truth have come under an unprecedented assault. Their reaction is especially harsh because Rushdie was raised a Muslim. Says Professor Georges Sabagh, director of the center for Near Eastern studies at UCLA: "He's engaged in the worst kind of blasphemy. He's a renegade, an apostate...