Word: baiter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Arriving in Argentina for a brief weekend visit as part of his Latin American fact-finding and good-will mission, Milton Eisenhower received an all-out welcome from that old yanqui-baiter, Juan Perón. The Peronista press proclaimed: "The Argentine people have again set back their American calendars to zero hour, day one." The President took his guest to the prizefights and to a rip-roaring soccer match. At lunches and dinners they talked for several hours. Likeliest reason for Perón's big switch: he hopes for trade and financial assistance from the Eisenhower Administration...
...Milton Eisenhower headed south this week for more looking and listening, it appeared that one of the key points of his tour might be Argentina, which was included in the itinerary only at the last minute and after notable White House reluctance. In Buenos Aires that old yanqui'-baiter Juan Peron showed every sign of getting ready to roll out the red carpet for the U.S. President's brother. Peron had recalled personable Ambassador Hipolito Jesus Paz from Washington, presumably to help organize the welcome. Last week his regime suddenly let up on its campaign to drive...
...suppose,"asked Waugh, "that Tito, who has betrayed in turn King, friends and finally his one consistent loyalty to Stalin, will prove a trustworthy friend to them? . . . Tito is seeking to extirpate Christianity in Yugoslavia . . . Mr. Eden would not invite the country to feast and flatter a notorious Jew-baiter. Only when Christianity is at stake do our leaders show bland indifference...
...upset by these slanders," Schlesinger told the CRIMSON, "but I do get annoyed when people like McCarthy try to call me a Communist. Anyone who has read any of my books knows that I've been a Red-baiter from way back...
...same way with Churchill's proposal to create a new Home Guard, plans for which had been studied while Socialist Manny Shinwell was Minister of Defense. Last week it was Manny Shinwell who led the fight on the bill. Apparently trying to outdo Nye Bevan as a Tory-baiter, Manny kept the House of Commons in session for 20 hours, in the first all night sitting of the new Parliament. Those who stayed awake heard a great deal of cross and petty talk. When Shinwell announced that he needed a bath and a shave, a weary Tory brigadier asked...