Word: aura
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...went along. As Senator Neely pointed out, the General appealed for "liberalized" Senate rules everywhere he went in his campaign "except in Texas, Florida, and South Carolina." In light of this fresh memory, the president elect's insistence that it was none of his business takes on a definite aura of hypocrisy...
Book attributes this to "a social revolution since the first war and the general insecurity and anxiety of the community which has become reflected in the undergraduate. The cold war has added an additional aura of anxiety and the tremendous competitions mixed with the desire for good makes to get into graduate schools have brought on all kinds of phony notions that are tough to dispel...
...centuries, Yale and New Haven have periodically come together in gory frays that make their Cambridge counterparts look sickly by comparison. Guns, knives, and an aura of ill-feeling have permeated the town-gown relationship...
...blast at Adlai Stevenson's record on Communism. Stevenson himself warned the nation that it was about to hear "the most magnificent smears of all times." Other Democrats said that McCarthy was planning to make vicious personal accusations, and thereby gave him invaluable publicity along with a fascinating aura of evil. But when the day finally came this week, the Wisconsin Senator failed to live up to the Democratic billing. His nationwide TV broadcast was a standard McCarthy effort, no more and no less...
Whether or not the American people decide to turn their backs on Richard Nixon, he cannot shake off the large aura of unethicalness that $18,000 has placed above his brow. All the enumerations and all the charges of smear and all the evidence of the catholicity of his practise may prove he is clean in intention, but they do not diminish the unwholesome odor that a privately endowed slush fund always radiates...