Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...With the truth finally out, the U.S. could now get on with its duty. It had promised to deliver 225,000,000 bushels of wheat abroad by July 1. Even this amount, in view of the worsening world food crisis, would only alleviate hunger, not cure...
...admit your People Editor had me fooled [TIME, Jan. 21]. Upon reading his reference to "Willa Stockton Gather's famed short story, The Lost Lady or the Tiger," I vigorously rubbed my hands together in glee. . . . Then the truth struck me. ... How many others bit, not seeing the subtle humor . . . in that footnote, and sent letters of correction loaded with self-satisfaction...
Tobey: Was Mr. Pauley telling the truth when he stated that he never sought to stop the test suit...
Wait & Speculate. While the U.S. public waited for the final truth about the Yalta conference, it could speculate on the import of the Kurils deal. In the Kurils are 6,140 square miles of islands shrouded by fog and volcanic smoke, bleak and thinly populated, without important natural resources. But the islands have great strategic importance. By their acquisition, Russia had pushed farther east into the North Pacific, was now smack astride the short Alaskan air route from the U.S. to the Far East. Paramu-shiro, a Japanese air and naval outpost in the northern Kurils, was frequently bombed...
...first duty is imposed on us: that of telling the French the truth, the whole truth, hard as it may be. . . . Here . . . are the harsh realities we must face . . . less wheat, less meat, less wine, less potatoes...