Word: untruthfulness
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...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...
...quick to put his newspaper down. Ten of the eleven Council members voted for the investigation. Malik killed it with Russia's sist U.N. veto. Then the U.S. bounced right back with a second proposal: a resolution roundly condemning "the practice of fabricating and disseminating" the germs of untruth. Malik announced that he would veto that...
...cremation ("a heathen custom"), 2) commercial radio programs on Sundays, 3) American comics ("doing untold harm"), 4) Freemasonry, 5) the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights. The churchmen rejected racial and sex equality ("God spoke to Adam, not to Eve"), as well as freedom of speech and opinion: "Heresy and untruth may not be spoken freely . . . The devilish tendencies in man place very definite limits on these freedoms...
...warmonger. "I thought this was quite untrue," he said. "It was also unfair because this word warmonger was the one that Mr. Attlee's friends and followers were hoping to fasten on me whenever an election comes. Stalin has, therefore, been guilty not only of an untruth but of infringement of copyright...
...states: ". . . the film will probably stress the College as 'an adult world, free of coercion' . . ."; and: " . . . the ollege in its true prospective, without any propagandizing." I don't know what the movie is going to show, but the first statement refutes the second and is, in itself, an untruth. It is both propagandizing and untrue to say that the College is: "an adult world, free of coercion...