Word: truths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...representatives at the Commonwealth Conference in London. First it was announced that he was flying in to a meeting to which he had been expressly disinvited by Prime Minister James Callaghan. Then came stories that his plane was circling Europe in search of a proper landing spot. Finally the truth, he had never left Uganda at all. Amin, apparently, is still in a joking mood. After rumors built up for two days, a New York radio reporter managed to reach him by telephone. Then Radio Uganda announced that Amin was "very much alive and very fit" and had been enjoying...
...should try to say less and talk more. Baseball, after all, is for all its pinstriped glory still just a game, the biggest and best circus America could find to go with its daily bread. Yet so many writers insist on finding some cosmic meaning in baseball, some hidden truth in each line drive and Texas leaguer. Some people just never learn...
...They didn't tell the truth and they scared people. And if they didn't convince people they were telling the truth they at least scared people enough so they stayed back," she said...
When Bobby Lowe testified in court about Mafia killings [June 6] he was one decent, agonized man following the truth route despite obvious jeopardy forever after...
Here Widerberg begins to make his point. What is a policeman, after all? To some, he is an esteemed protector of law and order. To others, he is a licensed thug, doing society's dirty work to maintain the status quo. Of course, the truth lies somewhere between those two extremes, as Widerberg tries to show. One cannot assume that a cop is good solely because he is a cop. But this does not necessarily imply the opposite--the killer is not justified just because his target is evil hiding behind a facade of goodness. Some men are good, some...