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Nash, who owns a cranberry bog in McCarthy's own Wisconsin and was once a lecturer in anthropology at the University of Toronto, made a quick reply: "A contemptible lie." McCarthy, he said, apparently was stung by an anti-McCarthy ad in the Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune (circ. 7,952), signed by a group of citizens including Nash's sister, Jean...
...Stung into rage, Hsieh shot back: "Your statement is rude and absurd. You've gone too far in your absurdity and arrogance. You've reversed black and white. Your statement proves your lack of sincerity. You've fully exposed your ugly, ferocious features of a bandit...
Literary compliments aside, The Betrothed is a far more ambitious work than any Scott ever attempted. It is an adventure that pried into hearts as well as history; a long irony on men and politics that stung liberal Italians of a hundred years ago into a passion against the petty governments that divided their country. It has gone through more than 500 editions, and Italians rank it second only to Dante's Divine Comedy...
Actually, Churchill, who was understandably stung by the election-time warmonger cry, and possibly by the charge that he is too pro-American, did not say that the U.S. should clear out of East Anglia. He knows as well as any Englishman that, in case of war, Britain would be a major target for Russian attack-with or without U.S. bases. The best guess is that Prime Minister Churchill is using the East Anglia issue, as he is several others (e.g. his stout refusal to abandon plans for a .280-caliber rifle, when most of the allies prefer...
...most vitriolic attack probably ever conducted against a candidate. The entire campaign was one of a complete distortion of facts." He ticked off some of the misstatements used by the Democrats during the campaign. "When Bob Taft was a child in the Philippines with his father, he was stung by a jellyfish," he read from the C.I.O.-P.A.C. Speaker's Handbook. "That's why he is now opposed to foreigners...