Word: challengee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Until then, the U.S. wanted U.N. to understand a couple of things: it was not questioning the rights of full-time working newsmen, but it had not "yielded up its sovereign rights to challenge the bona fides of any alien journalist*... to investigate, to hold hearings and to deport . . . if...
There were other straws in the wind. The effect of the U.S. diplomatic offensive against Russian Communism was nowhere more evident than in France. Russia had accepted the U.S. political challenge by ordering its French followers to revolutionary violence. The violence had failed of its purpose. Once forced into the...
"The management... is willing to risk being won over to the Free Enterprise system of Wall Street and the N.A.M. by the 'propaganda' in Reg'lar Fellers. Well, there's your challenge: don't you trust Jimmy Dugan and Fatso to stay true to capitalism...
John N. Wheeler, head of Bell Syndicate, thought the challenge worth taking. Any time he could sell his features to a Communist press, he regarded it as "a worthwhile propaganda achievement."
This experience left Miss Utley an embittered and angry woman. During the war she urged the U.S. to sign a negotiated peace with Hitler, so that Germany and Russia could kill each other off. In China, she now wants the U.S. to commit itself to intervention if necessary, "to challenge...