Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Carefully, Eisenhower summed up for newsmen his ideas on a variety of election-year questions-including his reasons, as a reporter put it, for deciding "to begin attacking the Democrats." The answer was simple. As always, his purpose was to state "the truth as I know it, the facts as I know them." Some people, however, occasionally distort the truth. In such cases, although he didn't personally enjoy it, it becomes "necessary to clear away this underbrush of misunderstanding...
...Thus, when the Administration came to power in 1953, "it looked to us like it was time to take the bull by the horns, and eliminate it all, and that is what we have done." Ike's point, in line with his insistence on the facts and the truth: as a military commander he personally had put integration into effect even over the objection of some of his generals ("General Patton, who at first was very much against this, became the most rabid supporter of the idea"); then, as President, he had finished the job begun under the Truman...
Thousands cheered at the Labor Party Conference at seaside Blackpool when a teller recited the vote that made Bevan party treasurer (by a margin of 274,000 over Candidate George E. Brown). The truth was that the cheers were more for a party decision than for ruddy, white-thatched Nye Bevan himself. Said a Mine Union leader: "We thought he'd be better cornered in office than left wild outside." Sighed a delegate: "Phew, unity at last...
...Marshal Tito as a son returned to the tight Red fold. In Washington, Secretary of State Dulles said he had no reason to think that Tito had changed his policy, which was "that the now satellite countries should have a greater measure of independence." To get at the truth of Tito's position, virtually every Western and Communist diplomat in Belgrade (including U.S. Ambassador James W. Riddleberger, back in Belgrade from vacation) was lined up for official interviews with the Yugoslav President. Tito, for the moment at least, was letting them twiddle their thumbs and-as he perhaps...
...familiar horror of science fiction is the slave whose thoughts and actions are governed by an electronic gadget grafted into his brain. There might be some truth in this fiction, says Electrical Engineer Curtiss R. Schafer, who designs and develops electronic instruments for the Norden-Ketay Corp. of New York City. Electronics, he believes, could save a lot of work for the indoctrinators and thought-controllers of the future...