Word: untruth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...letter elsewhere on the page, Dean Bender rightly points out that the CRIMSON has inadvertently perpetuated an untruth we have long tried to bury. Alan R. Sweezy '29, it is true, was given a "terminating appointment," and it was no secret that his views were to the left of most political centers. By working solely from these two facts, some liberals on the Faculty and elsewhere came to a conclusion which was long to prove embarrassing to President Conant. More important, the dropping of Sweezy and the other instructor in the case, J. Raymond Walsh, forced a reform...
...seems incomprehensible that TIME, Oct. 25 could refer to Daniel Malan as "the most hated man in [South] Africa, etc." I refute this flagrant untruth. He has . . . been elected to power repeatedly. After all, the people could have chosen an arrogant Englishman, but they didn...
...McCarthy's charge, if true, becomes perhaps the greatest untruth he has ever spoken...
...because of its very gravity, McCarthy's charge, if false, becomes perhaps the most irresponsible untruth he has ever spoken. And until he can show there is a member of the Faculty who is a Communist (he has never said Furry is one), his charge is wholly unacceptable...
...York Times in international coverage. He wrote his own, firmly righteous editorials, personally tongue-lashed employees who fell below his lofty standards and exiled them from the office for a week (with full pay). Editor Paz was so sure that La Prensa could never publish an untruth that ten years after it erroneously reported the death of a famed Spanish baritone, he would not print an ad for the singer's latest Buenos Aires concert. Barely conscious since a cerebral hemorrhage in 1943, Don Ezequiel was never told of La Prensa's seizure by Dictator Juan Peron...