Word: falsehoods
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...never occurred to me for a single minute that a man in that position would not tell the truth to one of his closest colleagues, particularly someone who was going to defend him. And I deeply resent the idea that I was actually perpetrating a falsehood unknowingly for all that time...
...response to the charge, McDavitt says, "I'm voting for [Graham]...and I went to one of her press conferences to show my support." But he adds, it is "a blatant falsehood to even suggest" that that constitutes a conflict of interest...
There was no way to know if the notes were an accurate account of what happened. On Tuesday the candidate confronted reporters who had staked out his driveway. He called Parkinson's version "an absolute, flat-out falsehood" and complained that he was suffering from "one bad rap after another." The encounter ended only when his wife Marilyn pulled him away from the TV cameras...
ACTING is falsehood. Or so it is in Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing, in which a love-entangled quarter of theater people, so used to faking emotions on stage, cannot feel emotions off stage. They resort to biting wordplay that is done to the hilt in the polished but ultimately sterile Winthrop production...
...Paul McCloskey Jr. and Democratic Congressman Andrew Jacobs Jr. of Indiana. "I may become a candidate for President of the United States," said Robertson, who last month announced a campaign to obtain 3 million signatures and financial support for a possible race. "It is important that I demonstrate the falsehood of these stories...