Word: blunderbussing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Down with the Sharks. Armed with special spring guns, ranging from needle shooters (to catch small fish relatively unmarred) to blunderbuss types shooting two-pound spears, the group will set sail next month for the Southern Red Sea, where the clear waters abound in all types of tropical fish. The group expects to tackle man-eating sharks and giant octopuses (with curare-tipped spears...
...party's best vote-getter, Fairchild knows he probably cannot win the election on the McCarthyism issue. In a state with a large Catholic population and a strong residue of isolationist sentiment from La Follette's day, McCarthy has somehow convinced the voters he has bagged Communists with his blunderbuss attacks...
...support Stevenson, then, simply because he has left blunderbuss campaigning to others. We support him because his views are a matter of intelligent, earnest thought, and his record a matter of its honest application. He has shucked liberalism of its blind dogmatism, and left only what is good...
Then the Federal Reserve Board, which has little faith in price ceilings or blunderbuss methods, unsheathed a rapier aimed at the heart of inflation: the enormous supply of money and credit. FRB tightened up its installment curbs, then boldly touched off the financial fight of the year; it challenged the cheap-money policy of the Fair Deal and Treasury Secretary John Snyder. In the showdown, it forced Snyder to retreat from his cheap-money policy and let the interest rates on Government bonds-which affect all other interest rates-start slowly upwards, thus tightening the money and credit supply...
Douglas also had another argument against the McCarran bill. He argued: the McCarran "blunderbuss" would not accomplish what it set out to do. What was to prevent Communist groups from changing their names as often as they were cited, from arguing their cases interminably through the courts? He argued that the bill would merely drive the Communists underground and out of sight; it was better to keep them in sight. The fact was, the McCarran bill would probably drive the Reds underground. But that was its chief usefulness. The reiterated Communist threat to go underground is political blackmail; there never...