Word: untruthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which would require a two-thirds majority in all decisions dealing with the constitutionality of acts of Congress. Minton later toyed with the Constitution again, when he introduced a bill to gag the press by imposing a $1,000,-to-$10,000 fine on publications which printed a "known untruth...
...underlying all that change, a living power that is changeless, that holds all together, that creates, dissolves and recreates. That informing power or spirit is God. . . . I see it as purely benevolent, for I can see that in the midst of death, life persists; in the midst of untruth, truth persists; in the midst of darkness, light persists. Hence I gather that God is life, truth and light. He is love. He is the supreme good. But he is no God who merely satisfies the intellect, if he ever does. God to be God must rule the heart and transform...
...Enormous Untruth. But though postwar motorists were gradually becoming horn-blowing neurotics with tendencies toward drinking, cat-kicking and wife-beating, there were few who did not believe that the traffic evil would soon be corrected. This enormous delusion has been a part of U.S. folklore since the day of the linen duster, driving goggles and the high tonneau...
Public creation of the "Little Comintern" widened the split at the United Nations, where the Russian bloc has lately abandoned all pretense of cooperation. The New York Times's James Reston remarked: "Probably never in the history of international gatherings has the simple, demonstrable untruth been put forward so often with such force and passion...
...this was a Communist led affair. I will not believe the men who wrote such a sentence as "If Communists were among the demonstrators, good for them," did not know the organizing group was Communist. Their accusing the CRIMSON of spreading "the untruth that resistance to Smith was . . . primarily Communist" is at best disingenuous. The thing was led by Harry A. Mendelsohn and his AYD friends. Mendelsohn may not be a member of the party, but in two years acquaintance with him I've never seen him disagree with the party or fail to support its local front groups...