Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...advertisement elsewhere in this issue, entitled "The truth about atomic hazards," sponsored by the U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force, it is stated that radiation is the least important aftermath of an atom bomb explosion, as regards danger to humans, and that "only 15% of the deaths at Hiroshima and Nagasaki were caused by radiation . . . No significant amount of radiation appeared to linger after the explosions...
...sometimes simple fuzzy-mindedness, as in Eleanor Roosevelt's dictum in a recent column: "There is one great truth that will have to be accepted everywhere before the people will be at peace. That is that it will have to be established that there...
...that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth...
While Greeks and Americans tended to blame each other for the "situation," the truth was that both were faced with a very tough military and political problem: How to destroy an enemy when his base in a "neutral" country is immune from attack...
...milder method of dredging the mind is narcosynthesis (with some such "truth serum" as sodium amytal). In a twilight state between wakefulness and deep sleep, the patient often says things he cannot or will not say when fully conscious. Narcosynthesis works best when the patient's difficulties are recent (as in some "war neuroses"). The most desperate treatment of all, for the patient who fails to respond to anything else, is a drastic brain operation, like lobotomy (TIME, Dec. 23, 1946). Lobotomy may relieve the more troublesome symptoms, but it may also leave the patient so irresponsible or lumpish...