Word: birching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Birch Bite...
...young Americans who is deeply interested in the preservation of complete individual freedom for every U.S. citizen through conservative political philosophy, I am grateful for TIME'S portrayal of the John Birch Society as "wayway right" of the main stream of the current conservative movement in this country. There is a deplorable tendency in some journalistic quarters to lump the "sane" conservatives, represented by Senator Barry Goldwater and William F. Buckley Jr., with an "insane" element, represented by Robert Welch and his "Birch-Barkers...
...must be evident to at least some Americans that all this finger-pointing to the John Birch Society is just a Communist maneuver to detract attention from what they are doing. It would seem advisable for our responsible Government officials to spend less time harassing known Americans, and more enacting laws against the Communists for the protection of Americans. Then we would feel no need to band together in little groups for our very survival. And, incidentally, your survival...
...required officers and enlisted men alike to sweat through daily calisthenics and often take a one-mile run. But last week the Pentagon abruptly relieved General Walker, 51, of his command. The reason: charges that Walker was indoctrinating his troops with political propaganda that emanated from the conservative John Birch Society...
...Overseas Weekly, an independent, American-owned newspaper that has won a big audience among U.S. soldiers in Europe with a mixture of sex and carefully documented exposés of officers abusing their rank. According to the Overseas Weekly, Walker was stuffing his troops with the rightist rantings of Birch Society Founder Robert Welch, once made a public speech in which he called President Truman "definitely pink" and TV's Edward R. Murrow a "confirmed Communist." A man of towering temper, Walker was so enraged when he heard of Murrow's appointment as director of the U.S. Information...