Word: attacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...minute downpour only settled the dust on the infield and affected neither Johnson's control nor the Crimson's attack...
...those terms." Political opponents, especially those who wear their ambitions on their sleeves, find it dangerous to criticize a President with a clear claim to serving the national interest without hope of electoral reward. If, for example, Democratic presidential hopefuls were to launch a plainly partisan attack, the President, says a White House aide, could "make them look cheap-simply cheap." And it is from that same vantage point of obviously working for the good of the U.S., not of Dwight Eisenhower, that he has fought -with success, so far-for a balanced budget...
...shocking story of what had happened. About 35 men had met at a farm outside Poplarville, but lynch justice was not their immediate aim. Rather, they were looking for ways to prevent a crowning indignity: the courtroom questioning by Parker's Negro attorney on the sexual attack of the 24-year-old white rape victim. Fired by beer, whisky and hot speeches during a two-hour meeting, the plotters eventually hit upon a scheme. By paper ballot, at least ten men were chosen to lynch Parker. They...
...ways in which the press of a free society can be manipulated for selfish ends. The late Senator McCarthy's use of deadlines and of the "unexpected" charge which could not immediately be proved false kept him in the headlines until "over-exposure" did him in. Herbert Brownell's attack on President Truman over the firing of Harry Dexter White was not released to the press until just before Brownell's speech. Then, after Truman had been forced to make a hasty denial in order to get onto the same front page with Brownell's charge, James Hagerty turned...
...more pedestrian note, the Alosp brothers concentrate nearly a third of their book, The Reporter's Trade, on an attack on bureaucratic secrecy regulations and devote the rest of their space to smug discussion of how they got around these regulations. Their opening chapters on what it is like to be an aristocrat and a reporter, how Washington reporting has changed, and the mortal penalty a society pays for not facing its big decisions in the open are only occasionally either penetrating of powerful. The selected columns which make up the body of the volume are neither effective records...