Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vice President Thomas Marshall, even though he had suffered a severe stroke which had paralyzed his left side and heavily impaired his speech. Stricken in September 1919, Wilson was incapacitated much of the 17 months until his term ended. Neither Marshall, the Cabinet nor Congress was told the truth about his condition;* state papers were sent to Mrs. Wilson, who decided which could be shown the Chief Executive without exciting him, which must be passed on to aides for action. For some two months, Wilson was able to transact almost no executive business; during that period 28 Acts of Congress...
...press but with an Administration that has shown notable candor in discussions of the President's health. Yet after each of Eisenhower's three illnesses, as the A.P.'s News Analyst James Marlow protested, the White House "first gave wrong information or only part of the truth and let it stand for hours." Last week's initial diagnosis of a "chill" was in force 16 hours longer than the announcements of "digestive upset" that preceded disclosure of Ike's heart attack in 1955 and last year's ileitis. But on both previous occasions Press...
What gives Look Homeward, Angel a vitality laced with truth is how much the Gants seem an actual family, at once riveted and riven-far more than Eugene's romance with a boarder (Frances Hyland) seems an authentic love affair. The long-borne inner tensions snap when at last Eugene turns on his mother-hair-raisingly in Anthony Perkins' performance-for the way she has used and fettered her children...
Even dedicated Communists have some bad habits, Nikita Khrushchev admitted last week. Example: saying "God's truth!" But, he added reassuringly, "we are atheists-we could just as easily say, 'I give you my word...
...stick in the Communist crop. The book attempts a subtle defense of individualism, and of the individual's search for meaning in life. While nursing wounded in a service hospital, the heroine muses: "One needs to believe in essential values, in life's force, in beauty, in truth so that they-and not human authority-may lead you up sure paths...