Word: innuendo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...while the sun shines in neutral Eire and his realization that his manly pride depends on his returning to embattled Britain. Similarly, he is the sort of a man who loves to hide his capacity for love and loyalty under a leering, winking mask of sexy chatter and innuendo ("Let me tell you," he assured young Albert, referring to the departed French governess, "there was many an occasion I went up to Mam-selle's boudoir to give her a long bong jour . . ."). Charley alone is enough to show why Novelist Elizabeth Bowen considers Henry Green...
Well, where did this hysteria come from? It was true that Harry Truman could hardly be blamed for Senator Bourke Hickenlooper's wild journey through the Atomic Energy Commission files with blunderbuss and loaded innuendo. Nor could he be blamed for the House Un-American Activities Committee's crass demand for a list of textbooks from 107 colleges (which Mr. Truman dismissed with an approving reference to a Washington Post cartoon...
...first charge to be answered was whether anybody had benefited personally or politically by the choice of the B-36 (TIME, June 6). In a letter he delivered personally to Chairman Vinson, Air Secretary Stuart Symington categorically denied this "basic innuendo." Every airplane the Air Force had ordered, wrote Symington, and every step in the B-36 program had been approved by the nation's top air commanders. At no time had "any higher authority attempted to recommend in any way the purchase of any airplane." As to reports that his own efforts in behalf...
...contention of Dr. Ashby that it is 'kinder' not to make charges against Professor Akeley's not a matter for Dr. Ashby to decide. Professor Akeley resents such innuendo and justifiably wishes to face his accuser or accusers because it is his contention that Dr. Ashby is chiefly interested in silencing and removing a liberal professor. The failure of a 'red scare' to remove Professor Akeley two years ago lends weight to Professor Akeley's contention. At that time, nothing was proven which was detrimental to Professor Akeley's reputation...
...Your article is full of stupid innuendo and untruthful reporting...