Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perhaps because it was so old, perhaps because it was so vast-an auto death on Main Street is still more real than news of 16,000,000 starving Chinese-its awful truth had never quite drilled itself into the U.S. consciousness. Winter, the traditional time of hardship, had passed. And now suddenly, in spring, when stalks of wheat were poking through the Polish earth, hunger stood on the world's doorstep...
...party program but upon the satisfaction rendered to his constituents and to pressure groups, and since there is no practicable method of enforcing party discipline in Congress, a Senator or Representative is inclined to vote for local interests rather than for national welfare. Illustrative of this unpleasant truth is the success of the Republican-Southern Democrat coalition, which has pounded the Administration's legislative program into an unrecognizable blob...
Britain's Minister of Fuel, dour Emanuel Shinwell, balefully noted that some capitalists were lifting up their heads again. Austin Motors' Leonard P. Lord had charged that the Government's February auto production estimate of 10,000 was 2,000 more than the truth. Government estimators were under orders to "paint a rosy picture," said Lord. To the Leeds Labor Council Shinwell made an answer which was Labor's frankest public statement of its attitude toward nationalization of industry...
...populace of 45,000,000 drinkers, which consumes more than $7,000,000 worth of liquor (or enough to send all Californians to Harvard for one year) has converted the psychological data into a new parlor game-something like truth or consequences. -New York Times, April...
When we record the scenes about the Yard, it shall be with enthusiasm; we shall mark the times and deeds with truth; and we shall look for the humanity in man. We will laugh, and let him protest whom the jester's sock pinches. We shall ask questions and they shall be blunt. Come with us, Veritas; we want your company, and we hope that you may profit from ours. We will have an answer ready when you ask, "Quo vadimus...