Word: hoodwinked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more than either Richard Nixon or Hubert Humphrey. If crowd reactions are any indication, the disorders in Chicago have only strengthened his repressive "law and order" theme. "The other two national parties," he said on television last week, "are panic-stricken because they realize that they can no longer hoodwink the American people. They have stayed in power this long only because there was no other choice...
...mystery by creating others. Nor does it help his case for an imminent apocalypse to explain flaws in the brief by making the U.S. Air Force the villain of a conspiracy to suppress the truth; he believes that the Pentagon's reassuring statements about UFOs are designed to hoodwink the public into supposing that they are psychological, meteoric, or astral in origin. Nor is sinister Air Force activity confined to the U.S. "What," he asks, "was the mysterious substance that dribbled from a crippled disk over Brazil in 1954?" The Brazilian air force gathered...
...Johnson says, he knew nothing of the activities of Bobby Baker. Billie Sol Estes or Mr. Jenkins, he must be extremely naive. If people whom he has known well over many years can hoodwink him this easily, think how our enemies may deceive him. If, on the other hand, he was aware of these things but did nothing about them, it can only be concluded that he condoned the actions of these...
Edward L. Bernays and John R. Moot of Cambridge, co-chairmen of the group, issued a statement in which they said: "The Committee believes that such attempts to hoodwink the public with improperganda are a betrayal of the public trust, and it is now exploring ways and means to prevent a repetition of such tactics...
Thank you for the wonderful reproductions in your Nov. 24 issue, particularly for that glorious and luminous cover. I often wonder what some of today's modern artists (drip, slop and hoodwink schools) feel when they look at masterpieces such as these. Awe? Envy? Shame...