Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Though the boys throw stones at the frogs in sport," wrote an ancient Greek poet," the frogs do not die in sport but in earnest." The Barrow gang -Bonnie and Clyde, his brother Buck and wife Blanche, their goofy, moonfaced driver, C. W. Moss-proves the truth of that maxim with its targets. At first, the shots are scattered in the air, like careless shouts. Then one lands point-blank in the face of a bank clerk. Blood hurts onto the screen, and from that instant, the audience is torn between horror and glee...
...result. Other Teamsters were also distributing two more interim papers, the Daily Press, which calls itself "the paper you've waited for since 1964," and the Daily Express, which boasts that it is "Michigan's largest daily newspaper." There is at least a smattering of truth to the claims; the papers look quite professional and carry national and international news as well as local. The Express' run is an estimated 285,000. The three papers have absorbed most of the editorial staff of the Free Press; so far News editorial staffers are still on the News payroll...
British press laws are among the most stringent in the Western world and newsmen are properly chary of them. Truth is never a defense. Even so, the London Sunday Times was not wary enough when it ran a picture caption descnbmg Michael Abdul Malik, a Black Muslim indicted for inciting race hatred, as a "brothel keeper, procurer and property racketeer." That was the truth but it revealed Malik's record before he came to trial-a violation of the law. Times Editor Harold Evans was haled into court on contempt charges...
Soon, Nelson is shocked to learn the truth about the mystery money. Yet by Act II, he and Barbara are using it to throw a party for neighbors whose style of living they ape and envy. When the madam suddenly appears at the party to announce that the police are on to her, it becomes clear that all of the wives have been cutting capers in her beds. And their husbands are in the know. With baleful urbanity, the men band together and make plans to protect their tax-free sincome...
Statistics like these suggest that getting into Harvard may depend on what your alumni interviewer had for lunch. Which is not too far from the truth. Dr. Chase N. Peterson, now Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid, says, "We are justified and obligated to trust a hunch...