Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That evening, after 1,250 guests at the biggest Iowa Democratic dinner in a decade had warmed up on Happy Days Are Here Again, Harry rose to demonstrate for the Stevensonian moderates just how he thinks a candidate should preach the Democratic truth. "Fellow farm sufferers . . ." he began. "In 1948 we had a Republican Congress-remember, it was the notorious, do-nothing 80th Congress . . . and that Republican Congress tried to block everything the Democratic President was trying to do for the people . . . This year we have a Democratic Congress and a Republican President. And the Congress has been trying...
...Corkscrewing the Truth." "No! No!" the crowd shouted fervently, and when Harry had finished, local Democratic bigwigs surged up to slap the ex-president on the back. In more than three years out of office Harry Truman had lost none of his ability to fire up the Democratic faithful-in fact the fire burned so merrily that some of his old friends in the party suspected he might be thinking of himself as a last-resort candidate...
...ordinary Russian people, who are not privy to Communist secrets (even when they are deliberately leaked to the world), are just beginning to learn the truth about Stalin and their new rulers' turn against the old Dictator. Last week some among them got a dramatic reinterpretation of the events leading to World War II and an explanation of the ignominious and costly defeats of the Red army...
...saving time, and most attempts to improve the town's playgrounds, schools and police. In his newspapers he has seldom bothered to print the other side of such issues. Last week, in full rebellion, Clarks-burgers began putting out their own weekly newsletter, to give Clarksburg "the straight truth about its government and city projects...
...heads candled." On the other hand, it is all but impossible to argue with an orthodox Freudian (as with an adherent of any other "one true faith") because anybody who rejects the dogma is instantly accused of doing so only because he has an inner, unconscious "resistance" against unpalatable truth...