Word: innuendo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Having respect for TIME heightens the shock at your McCarthy piece, which, for filthy innuendo, outdoes anything McCarthy's worst enemies have ever accused him of doing . . . You are aware that the Communists' No. 1 target in U.S. is to destroy McCarthy. Perhaps a more clever job than you realize has been done to poison your mind against a man who, if not the perfect champion, fights effectively for a cause that we should all be interested in. This newspaper has strong editorial opinions but confines them to the editorial page and doesn't prostitute its news...
Perfume & Love Songs. While an organ perfumes the air with strains of I Kiss Your Hand, Madame, Cesana murmurs: "Don't be afraid, darling, it's only a man's apartment." From this high-voltage start flow 15 minutes of well-turned compliments, sly innuendo, intimate laughs, all floating on oceans of European charm. There are cigarettes and pink champagne, love songs rendered in a throaty whisper (explains Cesana: "I'm the only Italian living who can't sing") and, finally, a heartbreaking good night as Cesana gazes deep and soulfully into his loved...
MacArthur's counterpunch had plenty of steam behind it. Truman, he said, "would relieve many millions of patriotic minds ... if, instead of indulging in innuendo and trying to alibi the past, he would announce the firm determination that under no conditions . . . would the U.S. permit Formosa to fall in Red hands or Communist China to be seated in the U.N. This simple and understandable assurance he has never given. I predict he never will...
...interesting work. At the same time that reader will find parts of the book completely unintelligible; he will not know who Algren is talking about, what incidents are involved, or even when it all took place. For Algren has criss-crossed his pages with symbols, quick references and innuendo about things only a resident of Chicago and reader of its newspapers could really appreciate...
...betrayed, for an unshaken man, a certain nervousness. He sent Congress a special message, urging that all important officials of the federal Government and political leaders of both parties be required to make public their annual incomes from all sources. His reason: "Attempts have been made, through implication and innuendo and by exaggeration and distortion of facts, in a few cases, to create the impression that graft and corruption are running rampant in the whole Government...