Word: mccarthyism
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...H.L.U. letter that definition "begins at home," and asked the H.Y.R.C. what it supports. It continued, "you can on the one hand grasp the isolationism of Dirksen and with the other reach out for the internationalism of Lodge. You can in one breath accept the principle of McCarthyism and in the next subscribe to the 'Declaration of Conscience' of Margaret Chase Smith...
...that party and that press are parties to a conspiracy of immorality . . . that makes the Democratic RFC shenanigans look like peanuts: I refer to the continued immorality that is McCarthyism . . . A Bipartisan Moral Policy is in order. HARRY MARGOLIS
...others never entertained the idea of recognizing Red China is a continuation of a monumental State Department project: an attempt to rewrite the department's private history so that it will read better in the light of current events. This effort, undoubtedly influenced by the climate of McCarthyism and the 1952 election, would be hazardous at any time; it is worse than that today, when the U.S. should be looking to the future...
...York Catholic cemetery struck last year for higher wages, and Cardinal Spellman personally led the strikebreakers, Commonweal sided with the workers. When Catholics succeeded in banning Roberto Rossellini's movie, The Miracle, Commonweal's scolding movie reviewer wrote that "The end result . . . has been a semi-ecclesiastical McCarthyism...
Commando Tactics. But there, anticlimactically, Maurice Tobin dropped the subject. He scrupulously avoided mentioning Joe McCarthy by name. He barely skirted the real case against McCarthyism-the technique of innuendo and slippery half-truths that deliberately confuses ends and means. And, with his glancing blow, he gave McCarthy's supporters just the right opening for a burst of commando tactics. Before Tobin could walk off the platform, a delegate grabbed a floor microphone. Over the loudspeakers his voice boomed out: "I demand that we invite Comrade McCarthy here to give us the other side of this story...