Word: driveling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...secret documents from his desk and pass them to the Russian ambassador was irrelevant in 1950; Strachey was probably just as good a "security risk" (in the cops & robbers sense) as anybody else. The important question was whether a man who can write (and apparently still believes) such drivel about Soviet Russia has any business being Britain's War Minister at a time when all the West (including the capitalistic societies which Strachey so openly hates) is fighting for its life. To give Strachey his present job was not so much a "security risk" as it was evidence...
...huckster tactics ("Kills Colds in Hours!", "Safe Even for Children") now being used to peddle anti-histaminic "cold cures." Sales of the drugs in 1950 may reach $100 million, it is estimated-"a plum for those who want to pluck it... The possibilities for exploitation seem almost unlimited. Drivel such as some of the [advertising] pleas for over-the-counter anti-histaminics should not be thrust on the American public. There is a limit to what the public should be asked to swallow...