Word: herring
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...recalled that Harry Truman had called the Hiss case a red herring "not only once, but seven different times." Beginning in 1939, Chambers again & again warned Government officials that Hiss and others were Communists. The Government did nothing "except to promote the members of the ring," said Nixon. If the Government had acted, "we might have nipped the Communist conspiracy in the bud;" other Communist agents might have been prevented from stealing atomic information which gave Russia the bomb five years before they might have...
...proud prisoners of their own mistakes." The men who did not learn about Communism, Eisenhower implied, were the followers of Harry Truman and Adlai Stevenson, both of whom he proceeded to quote. "They are those who cheered the blithe dismissal of the Alger Hiss case as 'a red herring.' They are those who applauded two weeks ago when an Administration Democrat grandly declared that Communists in our national life were 'not very important' and he advised that we should not waste time chasing 'phantoms...
...Republican ammunition is the failure of Democratic leaders to make certain motions to get themselves off this hook. Secretary Acheson said that he would not turn his back on Alger Hiss. Harry Truman's last word on the Hiss case was to call it a "red herring...
...year-old French artist Auguste Leroux. A dog in a recent Dali picture is the image of a dog in Anye Bru's Martyrdom of St. Mcdin (circa 1500), and the Dali horses in his set for the ballet Mad Tristan look like John Frederick Herring's 19th century favorite, Pharaoh's Horses. A.B.C. captioned its story "Three Coincidences," and let its readers judge for themselves...
...Leroux's, was seen from above and from much the same angle. The Dali dog rested head on forepaws in exactly the same position as Bru's, had the same collar and the same markings. And the main difference between Dali's wild-eyed horses and Herring's was that Dali had painted his with crumbling brick foreheads...