Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moral defeat. And Gandhi's ashes were not cold before the world had begun to vulgarize his saintliness (as it had vulgarized Lincoln's*) by insisting, against the facts, that there was no vulgarity in him. The world finds it hard and self-shaming to believe that truth can be glimpsed from the earth; its heroes must be projected into a nebulous world of "mysticism...
During the course of his main speech and two rebuttals, Barnes insisted that Communists cannot teach or speak without distorting facts and that he could see no good "in permitting a teacher of youth to one whose life is devoted to concealment and distortion of truth, whose aim is the subjugation of mankind to a ruthless dictatorship...
...truth is a long time in coming. We present merely the facts for the further edification of the literate masses...
...sound instinct, for "those prophets seem to be standing on the tiptoe of expectation, waiting for 'Him who is to come.' . . . For there is a profound organic connection between the Old Testament and the New, and nowhere more than in the prophets do we feel the truth of St. Augustine's words: 'In the Old Testament the New lies concealed: In the New Testament the Old lies revealed...
...anesthetics have replaced sick-making ether, or made it possible to use much less. Hangover-proof cyclopropane was first demonstrated only 15 years ago; curare, a South American arrow poison introduced four years ago, relaxes muscles, reduces the amount needed of any general anesthetic. Sodium pentothal (the "truth drug"), no more terrifying than a sleeping pill, is enough for some operations ; it may also be used to calm a frightened, fighting patient for the once-dreaded trip to the operating room...