Word: truth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...same time, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, Bush believes neither Cristiani nor the military had any role in the priest killing. He believes "Cristiani would not lie to me in a matter of this importance." He believes--despite the fact that Cristiani's telling the truth might jeopardize the $1.4 million dollars a day in aid his government receives from the United States...
...regardless of statistical inaccuracies, the Independent stumbled upon an actual truth: Dealing with loneliness has become part of The Harvard Experience...
...Michigan, Michigan State and UCLA when he was a high school senior in Flint, Mich. But Holtz told Lyght that if he came to Notre Dame he would be part of a national-championship team. "I looked deep into his eyes, and I knew he was telling the truth," says Lyght. Holtz also persuaded quarterback Tony Rice, tailback Ricky Watters and flanker Raghib ("Rocket") Ismail, players who have been crucial to the Irish success, to enroll at Notre Dame. Not that Notre Dame, with its mystique and a virtual farm team of Catholic high schools providing talent, needs additional help...
...merge their two public school systems (black and white), the supervisors of Prince Edward County closed them down, and then kept them closed for five years. It was an extension of "massive resistance," the last stand of states' rights. The position was argued in high legalisms. But in deeper truth, Senator Harry F. Byrd Sr. and other leaders of white Virginia were constructing a cathedral of rhetoric ("interposition . . . sacred duty . . . priceless natural right . . .") to enshrine the remnants of the nation's original sin, slavery...
...growing ragged as he shouted his challenges to the other world and answered with his famous $ refrain, "Let them come to Berlin." In that moment the tribute Kennedy gave to those people was as honorably held, as profoundly pure as anything he had ever said. It was made of truth and given to history. "Ich bin ein Berliner...