Word: brainwashed
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...what if Governor Romney said he was brainwashed [Sept. 15]? The Governor has suffered fierce political attacks merely because his speech is not as fast-talking as F.D.R.'s, as glib as J.F.K.'s, or as homespun and hypnotizing as L.B.J.'s. Romney is a man with integrity and noble convictions. Isn't it time the U.S. had a President who would give us the facts instead of a lot of old-fashioned rhetoric, a President who wouldn't be trying to brainwash the American people...
...Your POW camp training article [Sept. 1] revived memories of similar well-meaning efforts during and after the Korean War. Hardly a base, post or station was without its "torture and brainwash" school. All carried on with the best of intentions, of course. However, when all the evidence was in as to what actually went on in the POW camps of North Korea, it transpired that extremes of physical violence were the exceptions rather than the rule, occurring, it seems, to something like less than 1% of the prisoners. Mistreatment was far more apt to take psychological rather than physical...
Quite possibly, Romney did not fully comprehend the implications of that ugly term to brainwash.* In any case, it is unlikely that his opponents in either party will allow him to forget his gaffe-not to mention the cartoonists, who henceforth will surely not miss a chance to picture the Governor's cranium wreathed in detergent foam. And all can do it with impunity, since he did it to himself...
Schulman, who has been studying disarmament theories among scholars in Moscow for the past three weeks, was accused by the Soviet government newspaper Izvestia last Saturday of attempting to brainwash and blackmail a Soviet scholar at Harvard in 1964 into defecting to the United States. Schulman denied the charges...
...sold. What he buys is oblivion. Soon he is propped up in bed reading his own obituary. Having purchased a $30,000 first-class death (hotel fire) with a stand-in corpse from the organization's Cadaver Procurement Section, he has undergone plastic surgery and a light brainwash. When the medics start pulling the bandages off, the former middle-aged banker stares into a mirror. Who can it be, under those stitches and scar tissue? Would you believe Rock Hudson...