Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...investigations, and hardly anybody thought that much would come of them. President Truman gave Tom Clark's campaign his blessing, but he did not think it was likely that it would bring about price reductions. It was also not likely to turn up many hot profiteering conspiracies. The truth was that Tom Clark's Justice Department had already investigated some of the thousands of complaints received since OPA's death and had dredged up nothing that really looked like an air-tight price-rigging case...
Even with its dying breath, the once-vigorous, lately spineless Star told less than the whole truth. It had just been swallowed-but did not say so-by the affluent and conservative Seattle Times, which would now have the afternoon field all to itself. For the Times (circ. 176,000), the deal was a bargain: at the markdown price of $360,000 it got the Star's precious newsprint contract. It also nipped young David T. Stern's threat to buy the paper and restore the lusty liberal voice that its late founder, E. W. ("Lusty") Scripps, gave...
...Airman Hughes took off again. In scrawling longhand he had written a statement and he read it challengingly: "The public has witnessed two men getting up under oath and saying things which contradict each other. ... It stands to reason one of us is telling something which is not the truth. I have been reprimanded for using the word liar, so I shall try to avoid using the word...
...meant "enslavement" and not "servitude.") Intervention by Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and Albania was a "myth. Intervention cannot be concealed in bushes." As usual, Gromyko dragged his listeners around the same point through interminable repetitions. His reasoning was pervaded by the sublimely simple conviction that the Communist dogma was The Truth and would prevail. He was surrounded by an intangible body of strangeness, as though he had come from another planet and carried a piece of its peculiar atmosphere with...
...sentence was a match with the club's best boxer. Once a group of Gremlins were arrested for bombing a schoolhouse. They confessed, but said that they had done it the night before they had met him. After a little sleuthing, Father Swartsfager found they were telling the truth, went into court, got them released to his charge...