Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hurried edition of Stars and Stripes, with a hopeful editorial: "The Germans have what it takes to win back their freedom. Good machinery, good ink, good paper. All they need is the truth." That was three years...
...Isacson trip to Paris could hardly have "stirred up more commotion-and given Communist propagandists more anti-American ammunition-than the passport denial. Congressman Isacson promptly made the most of the situation. All he wanted to do, he cried, was to "learn the truth" about conditions in Greece. He said he would apply for another passport-this time to Palestine-and dared State to refuse him again...
...work on an autobiography based on extracts from her voluminous diaries. My Apprenticeship, which covered her first 30 years, appeared in 1926; Our Partnership, which carries on to 1911, is the next (and last) installment of the unfinished work. "The difficulty," Beatrice Webb realized, "is to tell the truth without being self-conscious about it"-and the result of her efforts is a natural account of a married life which, though it might sound like hell to most men & women, was heaven to the Webbs...
...know that the metaphor was used by some other public speaker during the great agitation led by my father round about 1920. His only connection with the metaphor was to deplore the use of such language even to express a truth. On a pure point of fact it is necessary to emphasize that Gandhi was one of the most refined persons in the world, refined in his scanty dress, in his speech, in his manners. There are many small and fine points about Gandhi on which I would always have something or other to say, if only...
...Inherent Truth." In the catalogue, Matisse himself tried to spell out his position. "There is an inherent truth," he explained, "which must be disengaged from the outward appearance of the object to be represented. This is the only truth that matters. . . . Exactitude is not truth...