Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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State legislatures and city council chambers across the U.S. regularly ring with politicians' warnings against "increasing concentration of power in Washington." The truth is that the main power of government-to spend money-is being claimed by legislatures and city councils at breakdown rate. Since World War II the states have increased their spending 15 times faster than the Federal Government; .city governments have increased a hefty 18 times faster. In fiscal 1957 alone, reports U.S. Census Bureau after a year of figure collecting, cities upped total expenditures 13% to an awesome $12.8 billion. .By comparison, federal spending...
...Miami Beach hotel, and his rather precocious 12-year-old son, Ally. Sid, who thinks Easy Street is just around the corner, needs $5300 to pay off debts and retain the hotel. So he phones his stupid but well-heeled brother Max in New York and drops a half-truth about Ally's poor health. Whereupon Max and wife Sophie fly down and want to take Ally home with them or marry Sid off to a wealthy young widow; but Sid prefers women's company without responsibility, particularly that of a nympho who has a room upstairs...
...responded wholeheartedly to the drive, which has centered its appeal on the importance of the success of the Program to all colleges in the United States. This argument ranks high on the list of "selling points" which alumni workers are given before they go out to solicit funds. The truth of it is readily apparent: as soon as Harvard, the wealthiest (in terms of endowment) college in the country, announced its drive, Yale, M.I.T., Brown, and a number of other schools followed suit with ambitious money-raising programs of their...
...still unique problems of religion in a free society, concludes Dr. Miller, there is one answer: "The retention, restatement and recapture of that transcendent dimension, for something like it is necessary if a society is to recognize the claims of both truth and liberty without allowing either to destroy the other...
...living falsely because they are not living freely. Not all of these stories are good and no one of them is first rate, yet they are pathetically moving because their authors can be felt, and almost seen, each in the tricky situation of one who must tell a necessary truth and may forever lose his right to speak if he tells...