Word: innuendo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...congressional investigations have proved to be quite such a fiasco as the House Special Committee's inquiry into tax-free foundations. Right from the start, through quotations out of context and broad innuendo, the committee's research staff tried to prove that the foundations have been vaguely unAmerican. Then, just as the foundations began their own defense, Chairman Brazilla Carroll Reece of Tennessee joined his fellow Republicans in abruptly voting to end public hearings; the foundations were invited to reply in written statements...
...switch under his desk.) Hickenlooper could not resist adding a comment born of ten years' experience in Washington: "I think it is ominous . . . when those who decry methods of insinuation and the blasting of characters and reputations on the part of others, themselves use such innuendo and unfounded rumor as the truth in their attempts to attack those whom they do not personally like and whom they would like personally to destroy...
When Committee Counsel Roy Cohn insisted that there was secret evidence, which he could not produce, that Mrs. Moss was a Communist, Arkansas Democratic Senator John L. McClellan bitterly decried "convicting people by rumor and hearsay and innuendo." When Mrs. Moss admitted that she knew a Negro named "Rob Hall" (whom Cohn identified by name as a representative of the Communist Daily Worker), a reporter reminded Democratic members in a whisper that the Worker's Hall (its longtime Washington correspondent) is a white man. Cohn blandly promised to "check" the discrepancy...
...statement for television, McCarthy sent another deletion around to newsmen. The word "now," he said, should be omitted from the sentence: "Apparently the President and I now agree on the necessity of getting rid of the Communists." It was just arrogant Joe's way of stressing the innuendo-and of sinking the blade a little deeper in the area between the shoulder blades...
...unpopular beliefs. To give him more names is merely to provide him with more fuel and to aid him in destroying the lives of men and families. The fact that those named would protest their innocence of criminal activity would not hinder McCarthy; his genius lies in distortion and innuendo. Further-more, to the unreasoning public Communism and treason are one; admission of the former is proof of the latter. Every new name is a headline for McCarthy; every new admission a faggot for hysteria. Franklin V. Walker Tutor in Economics