Sentence:  Senator Mundt 's gross distortion of President Eisenhower 's conversation into a denunciation of President Kennedy as too left wing , a statement Mr. Eisenhower declared to <WSD>be</WSD> entirely false , is another case in point . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)