Word: birching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There was no freeing of closeted literary skeletons or butchering of local sacred cows. She mentioned the John Birch Society only in passing and alluded to Joe McCarthy (no relation) with a smile. What had happened to the fires of yesteryear? Only in the closing minutes of an unexpectedly academic talk on the novel did the trenchant moral critic emerge to express the full force of her contrary spirit...
Since last spring, when the John Birch Society was flushed from the secrecy of its chapter meetings into public view, a new and militant minority of the far right has increasingly become a force to reckon with in U.S. political life. But last week came the reaction-and across the land, there was thunder against the ultra right...
...joking aside, Bob Kennedy noted that the "only Communist the John Birchers have uncovered is President Eisenhower"-a reference to the absurd charge in Birch Society President Robert Welch's Blue Book that Ike was "a conscious agent of the Communist conspiracy...
...Committee. Formed last October to "combat Communism in Phoenix," the committee put up a slate of city councilors, chose as its mayoralty candidate Insurance Man W. Buckner Hanner, 45. To start off his campaign, Hanner, a World War II fighter pilot who boasts of his membership in the John Birch Society, charged that Charter Government's city manager system was part of a plan launched by the National Municipal League (a thoroughly respectable association of U.S. civic leaders who work for such reforms as urban renewal, Metro government and modern budgeting) to further "the aims of internationalism and Communism...
...Boston conclave of far-out right-wingers, rampaging Columnist-Commentator Fulton Lewis Jr., 58, won wild applause by repudiating the moderation of the John Birch Society in merely urging the impeachment of Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren. Foamed Lewis: "I would lynch Earl Warren...