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...down, useless, ugly old witch...
...leaflet, which urges condominium owners to register to vote "in order to protect your basic rights" mentions one city councilor--David Sullivan--by name, and attacks as well the other members of the liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) slate, claiming they have set up "investigation squads...in a witch hunt-like attempt to search out 'illegal homeowners...
...worked by the magic of the words themselves; later, they glowed with the power of the gods, who were invented to officiate at melodramas. Oaths should be sparingly used and specifically targeted. Their imposing solemnity can shade without warning into the preposterous, into peeled grapes on pledge night, a witch doctoring oogly-boogly like the oath that Tom Sawyer's gang swore in the cave...
...specifics, the House Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control somewhat hastily set up hearings in Hollywood to probe drug abuse. Even some of the entertainment world's most outspoken opponents of drugs, such as Cathy Lee Crosby and Edward Asner, refused to testify, calling the hearings a witch hunt...
...late. Liberals and civil libertarians are worried about groups that Denton may try to investigate as part of the "disinformation" conspiracy, such as antinuclear organizations and a Washington-based liberal think tank, the Institute for Policy Studies. Some critics have begun to compare Denton to that ultimate American witch-hunter, the late Joe McCarthy...