Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sophisticated Suzy Parker loved to give reporters a hard time. She would open an interview by pointing out that the initials of her real name, Cecilia Rene Ann Parker, form an earthy word that has sometimes been used to describe Suzy's way with the truth. ("I always tell the truth, but today's truth might not be tomorrow's.") She regaled newsmen with the information that she was born in Texas (of a poor family), in Virginia (of a first family), or in Florida (of a bourgeois family). Best of all. Suzy was always known...
...tailors working on a German army order and sewing pockets upside down on uniforms, or the story of the men who argued that the Israelites' true revenge was to forgive their enemies. Above all, there is the bravery of Emmanuel Ringelblum, who continued to set down the terrible truth until, when there seemed almost no one left to kill, he was executed with his wife...
...women chase the elusive dream of beauty with such frightening energy? The obvious answer-that they want to appear more attractive to men-is only part of the truth. Women insist that it is the psychological lift that makes cosmetics important in their lives. Says Mrs. Ruth Kay, a Cleveland housewife: "If I feel down, I take extra pains with makeup. When a woman feels she looks her best, she radiates a pleasant attitude and gives the entire family a lift. Without makeup she is self-conscious and won't put her best foot forward...
...feeble statements from faculty members urging the new schools, but every statement they made served only to strengthen the split in city beliefs. Opposition cries that the Board was trying to push measures through without telling the townspeople what they were doing probably held more than a grain of truth. Until the Board tries to gain general consent from the community before it proposes a plan--and incorporates in it the intelligent suggestions of the non-Board members--there will never be a new high school built in Mount Vernon...
...launching of the Russian earth satellites was a spectacular demonstration of the successes of an educational system which differs drastically from our own, and it jolted, at least temporarily, the American people into recognition of the truth that lay behind the criticism of the past...