Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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McClellan: "Was he telling the truth?" Witness: "I guarantee you he was telling the truth...
Nothing Else. "The simple truth," concluded Thorneycroft, "is that we have been spending more money than we should. Our basic problem, whether it is in the Welfare State or whether it is in arms, is that we should plan to spend less than we are planning to spend at the present time. Nothing else will serve. I believe there is an England which would prefer to face these facts and make the necessary decisions...
...walk there and buy any time they want. And they can pay cash. In the auction there's no alternative for cash." Later he recalled: "They got angry, but that's how we're going to deal with them. We're going to tell the truth...
Twentieth Century: "Our truth was a half-truth, our fight a battle in the mist . . . and those who suffered and died in it were pawns in a complicated game between two totalitarian pretenders for world domination." So wrote ex-Communist Novelist Arthur (Darkness at Noon) Koestler after he came home from Spain's civil war. As CBS's corrosive documentary, War in Spain, made grimly clear, the pretenders were Hitler and Mussolini on one side and Stalin on the other, and the game that divided a nation against itself was a grisly dress rehearsal for the greatest...
Wade Hunnicutt is the big man and big landowner of his county in Texas. He rates first not merely by virtue of wealth, but because he is the best hunter, the most responsible citizen, the man whose word commands immediate respect. Yet, at the same time, everyone suspects the truth about Wade and Hannah Hunnicutt's marriage-that he has slept with just about every other woman in the county. He has a preference for married women, and altogether too many youngsters in the town are dead ringers for Wade Hunnicutt. All this his wife Hannah knows, as well...