Word: contexts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dulles, Ives recalled, had been "the victim of innuendo and misrepresentation." His competence had been questioned by Lehman, his international experience attacked by the Democratic organization (in newspaper ads) as "a myth." Sentences from Dulles' writings were taken out of context "in an effort to represent that his major loyalty was to the German I. G. Farben ... It was alleged that the Nazis were-and are-his clients . . . that he had looked with favor upon the rape of Czechoslovakia and that he favored the aggressive wars of the Axis. Attempt was made to identify him with the German-American...
...Mullins has done a grave disservice by wrenching two separate sentences from my article, quoting them out of context, and thus creating a wholly false impression. His column served to fan the flames of hatred and distrust. This I deplore, for I am utterly opposed to racial and religious prejudice...
Cherington said last night that the statements attributed to him in the column to prove anti-Irish bias were taken out of context. Also, he denied that he was a New Dealer, saying that his Republican views were well known...
...Lincoln scholars and plain readers, there was only one thing wrong with Look's snippets of wisdom: Lincoln had never said them. A few were paraphrases of genuine Lincolnisms taken out of context; others were pure invention, and all had been denounced as spurious in the Abraham Lincoln Quarterly. By last week, admitted Editor Gardner ("Mike") Cowles, Look was deluged with a "fantastic" flood of mail from indignant readers who had spotted the alleged Lincolnisms for what they were...