Word: innuendoes
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Asked in the fourth debate whether the tone of his campaign was negative, O'Neal said he had tried to be positive. "If I wanted to resort to innuendo and smear," he noted," I'd be bringing up a drunk driving charge and how a Wendy's franchise was transferred in the secretary of state's office." He was referring to traffic charges brought against Dixon in California in 1977 and Dixon's management of a hamburger franchise regulated by his office...
...showdown debate and the American hostages, U.S. voters will go to the polls on Nov. 4 to make an irrevocable choice with which they will have to live for at least four years. Despite the confusion caused by the shifting positions of the presidential candidates and the hyperbole and innuendo of a disappointing campaign, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan offer, in many ways, clear-cut and contrasting choices. Whatever other complaints the 1980 American voter may have (and there are many), he cannot complain that he has been confronted with Tweedledum and Tweedledee...
...times were changing. With The Moon Is Blue, the church had its reasons for the C rating-sex and innuendo-but the general public failed to understand the fuss over such a fluffy, flossy little comedy. Gradually, confidence in the film-office ratings eroded among Catholics...
...walking a thin line. After charging that Reagan was at variance with the arms-control philosophy of every President since Harry Truman, he added: "I don't want to be misunderstood. I'm not insinuating that my opponent is for war and against peace." Nevertheless, the innuendo was there. After the speech, one Carter adviser lamented: "He looks tawdry and cheap." Said another: "We've got to get him to stop that...
...offended no less than seven Southern Governors, who fired off wires protesting that Reagan had insulted the South. The President promptly jumped on the blunder: "I resent very deeply what Ronald Reagan said about the South and about Alabama and about Tuscumbia. Anybody who resorts to slurs and to innuendo against a whole region based on a false statement and a false premise is not doing the South or our nation a good service." Indeed, Reagan had compounded his mistake by getting his facts wrong; Tuscumbia is merely the headquarters of a branch of the Klan. Reagan apologized by telephone...