Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whatever the truth, that little safe in Norway promised more confusion and intrigue among the Habsburgs. Already Norwegians, descendants of the lithographer, were claiming the crown of Austria...
Nobody's Force. "Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it. The human race is not divided up, in the Iliad, into conquered persons, slaves, suppliants, on the one hand, and conquerors and chiefs on the other. In this poem there is not a single man who does not at one time or another have to bow his neck to force...
...inviolate, incompetent officer rule spreading its vile propaganda of chauvinism and prejudice; five years of "controlled" forums and news services where all political topics were taboo . . . five years of pompously proclaiming to the world that our Armies were fighting for Four Freedoms, or Democracy, or Liberty, while the truth of the matter was that our men, given no better incentive, went into battle with only one thought in their minds: self-preservation and living long enough to get home again...
...liars soon learned a better defense. They wriggled in their chairs, panted, peered wildly around the room. This made it hard to establish their normal respiration. Some tensed their muscles, trying to raise their blood pressure artificially even when telling the truth...
...Umbrella. Sometimes his exaltation is transcendental: "But oh, those heavenly moments when I feel this three-dimensional universe too narrow to contain my Attributes; when a sense of the divine Ipseity invades me; when I know that my voice is the voice of Truth, and my umbrella God's umbrella...