Word: innuendo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first six months of 1953 was a period to warm the cockles of Senator Joseph R. McCarthy's heart. He bounced from headline to headline, denouncing the use of Communist books in U.S.-sponsored overseas libraries, challenging with cloakroom innuendo the appointment of Charles Bohlen as ambassador to Russia, engaging in a transatlantic cat fight with Britain's Clement Attlee. But with the adjournment of Congress, McCarthy had to scramble to keep his name in the big black type. He was beginning to sag as a topic of conversation when Harry Truman came to his aid by injecting...
...Ofttimes an individual is not aware of the artful, clever devices which have been employed to rob a man of his independence of judgment. This may take the obvious form of physical force or the threat of force [or] the subtle form of coercion . . . false innuendo, and even of outright lies." The letter asked the prisoners if they were sure they were making up their own minds, if they had considered their families, if they realized that promises might be false. "There is nothing more humiliating than to discover that one has been a fool, used for someone...
...real point in issue is not the qualifications of the individual concerned. I reach the point merely to clarify a misconception you have fostered in the minds of your readers. Another misconception you advance relates to the degree of innuendo that could be imparted to a Note by a single writer. The truism you mouth, that "mere academic success entitles him to neither a forum for ideology or an instrument for hidden purposes" successfully skirts a disclosure of the technique by which the Review Notes are composed, thus denying your readers an unassisted evaluation of the risk of harm created...
...beat out 7,892 competitors from all over the U.S. in the annual National Honor Society "Bright Senior Contest," sponsored by the National Association of Secondary-School Principals. His score on the test: 95 correct answers out of 123. Sample test questions : Who was "the sick man of Europe"? Innuendo is to statement as copy is to -archetype, duplicate, imitation, reproduction, protraction...
Dwight Eisenhower did not miss the innuendo. He stiffened, his eyes sparked and, in a voice that needed no electronic amplification, he barked his answer: I do. Before he appoints anybody to an important post, he said, he calls him in and asks about his philosophy, whether he is biased or distinctly in favor of some doctrinal idea. He always tries to get a man logically devoted to the service, who generally conforms to what the President calls the middle-of-the-road philosophy. He doesn't like extremists, Eisenhower added-particularly those who make up their minds before...