Word: scattergun
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...total of 17 witnesses, mostly actors, directors and musicians, refused to make it clear whether they were or recently had been Communists. The whole batch together proved that the frenetic blacklisting by Red Channels, much criticized for its scattergun damage to innocent bystanders, had also scored some clean misses. They also proved a remarkable medical fact: it is still possible in mid-1958, after Korea, after Hungary, after the Kremlin's own post-Stalin confessions, for an apparently sophisticated U.S. citizen to be, or at least make noises that sound very much like, a Communist or a fellow traveler...
...this year), and customers are buying at a rate that will probably surpass the 1956 high of some $750 million. But to Veteran Publisher Alfred A. Knopf, 65, the state of the publishing business is parlous. In the current Atlantic Monthly, Knopf lines up his culprits for a scattergun blast...
...Chicago's shotgun-toting Mrs. Carola Mandel added up her year's bag of clay birds on both skeet and trap ranges, discovered that she is the first woman ever to whip all competitors, male and female, in competitive averages. Mrs. Mandel's scattergun accounted for three world records, including an average of 99.6 for 1,000 targets...
...Senator Joseph R. McCarthy. The result of the censure debate will only be anti-climax for these people. The abuses of McCarthy are so patent, they believe, that only one conclusion is possible: censure. Because the Senate proceedings seem likely to run against him, and have temporarily halted his scattergun investigations, many wishful focus of the Senator have written him off as a political dead duck...
Thunder from the Right. De Grazia, a social science researcher at George Washington University, is not choosy about the targets for his scattergun shots. Most of the time he lumps together all schools of mind-healing, from the Freudians to the Adlerians, Jungians, Rankians, psychobiologists and hypnotists. Perhaps, he says, the trouble is that they simply do not know how to heal a sick mind. Indeed: "They may even aggravate the disorders they seek to cure...