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Word: bootlickers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...disease worth investigating, but it is not too many Communist teachers. Their number is so small that it constitutes no menace to a society already so zealously anti-Communist. What, ought to be investigated is the number of teachers terrified of purges and investigation, of men who cower and bootlick and teach less than they know because they are in danger of losing their jobs if anybody so much as points an accusing finger at them. When teachers start to withhold knowledge, it's time for students to stop going to school...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: To Summarize | 6/11/1953 | See Source »

What the Congressmen ought to investigate and expose is the number of teachers terrified of purges and investigations, of men who cower and bootlick and teach less than they know because they are in grave danger of losing their jobs if anybody so much as points an accusing finger at them. When teachers start to withhold knowledge it is about time for students to stop going to school...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mixed Feelings | 1/15/1953 | See Source »

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