Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that the Russians would cheat, and influential Nuclear Physicist Edward Teller supports Strauss by insisting that they technically could cheat, the 2,050-mile mistake caused a flurry of accusations that the AEC had been doing some cheating itself. Hubert Humphrey all but accused Strauss & Co. of deliberately twisting truth. Asked the Strauss-baiting Washington Post and Times Herald: "Has the AEC been bending the scientific facts to suit a preconceived position...
Djakarta, the Dutch were goaded into the negotiations that ended in a free Indonesia. Though few Indonesians realize it-and fewer still feel any appreciation-Secretary of State John Foster Dulles was speaking the simple truth when he declared that the Indonesian Republic "came into being in large part as a result of the interest of the United States that a republic should be founded...
Here, as in many another area, U.S. idealism has been brought face to face with an unpalatable truth: when self-determination conflicts with the overriding U.S. objective of preserving the free world from Communist conquest, both expediency and good conscience dictate that self-determination must take second place. For unless the tide of Communism is contained, the world's dependent peoples will lose even the freedom to cry for freedom...
Lost Confidence. Truth was that lingering Arab confidence in France was ebbing so rapidly in the wake of Sakiet that no leader could soothe his angry subjects with assurances of French good faith and be convincing. Last week Mohammed was acting like a man whose own patience had run out, whose own confidence in French good will was gone...
...protested an arbitrary ruling, the examining judge observed: "Doctors who care for rebels are arrested. It might be better to arrest lawyers who defend them." Verges was not allowed to make a final plea for his client. Djamila Bouhired, permitted a few words before sentence was passed, said: "The truth is that I love my country; I want to see it free. And it is for this, and this alone, that you have tortured me and are going to condemn me to death. But when you kill us. do not forget that you are killing your own country...