Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that "isolated facts, true in themselves'' are not necessarily the truth. Agreed. We believe that isolated facts are far from enough; we are very much committed to amassing the facts and, if we can, isolating the truth. "Truth," you say, "is wholeness, balance and harmony." These are three good words, and we work by them...
...revolt and at the "hapless plight" of the Tibetan people. In answering the charge that the Dalai Lama was being held against his will at Mussoorie (TIME, May 4), he obliquely called the Red Chinese liars. "They have used the language of the cold war," said Nehru, "regardless of truth and propriety." Characteristically, Nehru regretted that on his own side "a small group of irresponsible people in Bombay" had thrown garbage at a picture of China's Mao Tse-tung...
...that so joyous a literary scalper as Henry Louis Mencken cheered her on and gave her houseroom in his American Mercury. The fact is, Author Suckow has not changed at all, but life has. The Iowa that was her childhood home is still the source of her fictional truth. In The John Wood Case, her first book in seven years, the period is Teddy Roosevelt's time, and the theme is the morality of that...
...Mistress (Japanese). A simple and moving restatement of a timeless truth: that even for a "fallen woman," the soul is free...
...greatest importance to the United States and the world, Strauss constantly refused to make the public a party to any of the broad policy arguments which he arbitrated. His abhorrence for candor is his major fault as a public servant. He cannot be trusted to tell the truth...