Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...truth is not so simple. There are many roads to power and Communists are willing to use them all. So resistance to the Reds takes many forms. Some of them are in the Communists' own conspiratorial patterns. A reporter tracing anti-Communist forces in Milan this month could begin in the Great Hall of Sacred Heart University, on the day of Milan's patron saint, and arrive by a fairly short line at a midnight session with machine guns of the Catholic underground...
Below God's platform stood a second, wider one, representing the earth, and the scenes enacted there were surprising not for their grandeur but for their truth to human nature. In one version, the shepherds were three Apennine comics: Nencio, Bobbi and Randello. Nencio inclined to be difficult; he refused to go in search of the Child until after breakfast. The shepherds offered their cloaks to the Madonna for blankets, begging her not to be offended by the goat smell. Then one of them turned to the audience, and exclaimed: "Think how the Blessed Virgin had not so much...
...most modern painters-the expressionists who try to satisfy themselves with flaunting their own fragile tatters of personal experience, and the abstractionists who take refuge in a pseudo-scientific picture of life as a composition of light rays and whirling particles-necessarily hide their gifts at Christmas. The only truth that many of them recognize is in the atom, which gives off not radiance but radioactivity...
...Truth: All proceeds from sales of Ruhr coal and other German products are poured back into Germany...
...Truth: Not a single German business property has been acquired by U.S. interests since the war. Many U.S. businessmen have complained that they cannot make commercial contacts in Germany. There are no legal means whereby Anglo-Americans can buy anything larger than an automobile in Germany. The U.S.S.R., on the other hand, now owns one third of the industry in its zone through Russian-controlled corporations...