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...banged the jury rail, sketched imaginary portraits, nourished a roll of microfilm until it snapped into a tangled mess. He invoked Almighty God, motherhood and the American flag. He accused the FBI of "impairing" defense witnesses. He pronounced the Government's star witness, Whittaker Chambers, a "traitor, thief, liar, perjurer, enemy of his country and a hypocrite," likened him to a coiled scorpion and a germ in a bottle of milk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE JUDICIARY: Weeds, Roses & Jam | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

...much would it all cost? Twenty billion, the beaten real-estate lobby had moaned, only to be called a liar by the President. Not over $10 billion, said Harry Truman. Who was right no one yet knew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: New Roofs for the Nation | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

Sabath shook his head: seven minutes was all he could spare. Before anyone realized what was up, "Goober" Cox called Sabath a "liar," swung at him with his right hand, clouted him on the side of the head and sent his glasses spinning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Let Harry Do It | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

...what Rivera's friendly enemy and fellow muralist, Communist David Siqueiros, calls la verdad verdadera-the true truth-meaning something poetically, if not factually, true. "What is marvelous with Diego," says Siqueiros, "is that he never tells a 100% lie." Frida agrees: "He is such a liar as are poets or children who have not been turned into idiots by their parents or the school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Long Voyage Home | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

...doctor when they are sick. These people won't listen to any man who tells them that the welfare state is a bad thing which robs them of their initiative by all this coddling. They will look at their healthier children and will call that man a liar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Medicine Man | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

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