Word: blunderbussing
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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...
...times as much for them as for inside ads. The result is that much valuable news space below the fold is filled with ads. What space is left is largely wasted by oversized headlines, and a make-up as haphazard as if the type had been fired from a blunderbuss...
Well, where did this hysteria come from? It was true that Harry Truman could hardly be blamed for Senator Bourke Hickenlooper's wild journey through the Atomic Energy Commission files with blunderbuss and loaded innuendo. Nor could he be blamed for the House Un-American Activities Committee's crass demand for a list of textbooks from 107 colleges (which Mr. Truman dismissed with an approving reference to a Washington Post cartoon...
What happened between epidemics? Could the virus that caused the flu have changed, while the vaccine did not? The researchers recommended development of a vaccine with wide enough range to hit, blunderbuss fashion, any flu virus that may turn...
Deer hunters blunderbuss their way through the woods these days bagging an occasional stag, a whiskey flask, and if lucky, a good-natured game warden. But now that athletics have moved indoors, the green felt of the amateur croupier slowly substitutes for the paler verdure of the gridiron, and cards again become the preoccupation of informal undergraduate sports...