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Word: truthful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tried to break out. In N.M.U.'s general election he had asked candidates with Communist labels to get out of office. The Reds, Joe roared, with utmost fidelity to the truth, were disrupting the union. The Reds had confidently accepted the challenge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: In the Crow's-Nest | 7/29/1946 | See Source »

...WAVE Frances Brown; of having strangled and dissected six-year-old Suzanne Degnan; of having shot and stabbed Mrs. Josephine Ross, a Chicago widow, when she surprised him looting her apartment. The papers declared that he had made an oral confession of all three murders while lulled by a "truth serum" (sodium pentothal). Bill insisted that he could neither rob nor murder. He blamed it all on a fellow named George Murman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Bill & George | 7/29/1946 | See Source »

...seemed to tie 17-year-old Collegian William George Heirens to the brutal Suzanne Degnan murder, perhaps to a couple of others. When word got around that he had talked (after an injection of sodium pentothal), headline writers" decided it was a confession, dusted off their favorite cliches about "truth serums...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Wuxtry! Read All About It! | 7/29/1946 | See Source »

...mayor of New Orleans flew up for a round of casting. Ralph Edwards sent a Truth or Consequences contestant from Hollywood to try his luck.*Amos & Andy wrote a Script around the stunt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Fish Story | 7/22/1946 | See Source »

...that each man must submerge his individuality in the great human brotherhood of which he forms a part. The Roman Catholic Church emphasized the social concept of Christianity; the Protestant Reformation reasserted the right of the individual to justify himself, in Paul's words, by faith alone. The truth, says Presbyterian Dr. Scott, is that Christ was never concerned with man-in-the-mass, but with showing individuals their proper relation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Christian Individualist | 7/22/1946 | See Source »

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