Word: truths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Spirit of Humility. By midafternoon on March 20, the last day of balloting, opposition leaders knew that the Prime Minister was in trouble in her constituency, Rae Bareli. Sealed off by sycophants, she did not learn the truth until 8 that night. She took the news calmly but became remote and withdrawn, stoically advising her ministers that if she had lost, she had lost. Before dawn the next morning she asked the Acting President to lift the state of emergency. Two hours later she summoned her ministers, many of whom had also been defeated, and told them she would resign...
...circulating at Harvard a petition calling for a stop to the "teaching of sociobiology as a scientific truth in any department...
...Ulster M.P. Enoch Powell, the eccentric, disruptive genius of British politics. A former Tory and a bilious critic of Thatcher's, Powell just might rally key Unionist yeas behind Callaghan. In any case, the vote will be dicey. As Callaghan admitted last week, "This is the moment of truth...
...Washington," argues Elie Abel, dean of the Columbia School of Journalism, "the danger to the public could have been greater. There was evidence of trouble, and if nothing had appeared in the news, panic would have developed." Says Richard Simon, formerly of the Los Angeles police: "If the truth is not good, it's better than rumors, which are generally horrible." TV Newsman Eric Sevareid noted it was an "odd irony that it was the absence of publicity that drove Khaalis to his act as much as anything. He appeared maddened by the fact that the frightful slaughter...
...truth is beauty, how come no one has her hair done at the library...