Word: inquisitor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attacked Senators Jenner, Velde, and McCarthy, calling the last "our modern grand inquisitor," a "dangerous and ruthless demagogue" who "has used the technique of insinuation against innocent people and debauched the Senate's power of investigation by introducing authorization practices that are skin to the communism which he professes to hate...
...epitomized by Utopianism (your excellent example, UNism). Even our educators are beginning to admit our educational system is goalless, its fruits: nationalism and relativism, and this dream belief in "the perfectibility of man," quickly shattered by the evidence of our senses. The principles of Dostoevski's Grand Inquisitor are gratefully accepted-just give us bread, and never mind freedom and responsibility...
...McCarthy's] record as an investigator is shameful . . . He has weakened the morale of our federal service and spread suspicion and fear throughout the nation. He has stirred up hatred and used every device to destroy the confidence of Americans in each other . . . [He is] our modern Grand Inquisitor . . . a dangerous, clever and ruthless demagogue . . . another Huey Long...
...exchange followed a speech by Mrs. Meyer before 17,000 members of the Association of School Administrators, in which she denounced Velde, and called Sen. Joseph C. McCarthy (R.-Wis.) "our modern grand inquisitor." The speech was vigorously applauded by the delegates who were present at the convention...
...away the most ingenious of all British puzzle "setters" is a Sussex schoolmaster named Derrick Somerset Macnutt, whose crosswords appear each fortnight in London's Sunday Observer under the byline Ximenes (a Cardinal Inquisitor of Spain). Ximenes' puzzles, for which he is paid 10 to 15 guineas ($30-$44) apiece, contain clues that range from pure cipher through anagram to outrageous pun. Samples: "Pleased a bag ?14 lighter" in four letters;** "Important city in Czechoslovakia" in four letters ;†† "Shortage of bats at a high level" in six letters...