Word: mccarthyism
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...what he accomplished, but for the noise he made, Senator Joe McCarthy was the most discussed man of 1953. His name became an epithet to millions, a cheer to countless others. In 1953, McCarthyism crossed the twelve-mile limit and became an international word, widely understood around the world to mean a cynical exploitation of genuine fears, a studied contempt for fair play, a cunning talent for concealing failures by loudly baying after new victims. Too many abroad, urged on by a U.S. press that would leave no word of McCarthy unrecorded-no matter how outlandish-took him as their...
Rollin' Along. The republic, though, was in condition to survive McCarthy and McCarthyism. Though business pulses slowed a bit here & there, never had production been so high or prosperity so great. The American of 1953 was still living on top of the world, and, as the song says, just rollin' along. In this age of managers and machines, of complexities and coordinators, this was the achievement of many, not one (see BUSINESS...
...shall never look upon his like again." PETER HENRIK HANSEN Copenhagen Sir: Your choice . . . has us sitting on the edges of our chairs. On the one hand, Joe Mc Carthy does not quite measure up to the high standard that you have set. On the other . . . McCarthyism has this year become the world's top anti-American issue ... at home, our idea of a perfect Roman holiday is to sit before a TV set and watch a McCarthy victim squirm behind the Fifth Amendment...
...most shameful surrenders to political expediency I have ever seen. He employed a sophisticated manner resembling McCarthyism. He seems to have purposely forgotten that ADA was formed in 1947 by militant anti-Communist Liberals to fight Communism. His implied charge of 'leftism' in the ADA is as foolish as it is vicious...
...Republicans and Democrats in the House dining halls and at the Faculty Club fired such loud broadsides of political argument and invective at each other. Under pressure of publicity and debate the White case broadened into the spies-in-government issue. Discussion then turned to the three evils: Communism, McCarthyism, and Original...