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...Veterans Committee faced in its Des Monies convention last summer and which threatens imminently in the ranks of the CIO: the issue of Communist domination. It is a question which on the one hand Congressman Rankin and others of his ilk have obscured by their irresponsible use of the epithet "Red" so as to render the word well-nigh meaningless, and on the other by the Communists in their unwillingness to declare themselves as such. By bringing up the question at an open meeting, the Liberal Union has done much to clear the surcharged atmosphere surrounding undergraduate political groups...
Dear friends, have you considered the consequence of your epithet? How can I explain it to my wife? "But dear, the Crimson called you dull." How can I explain it to my children? "Daddy, the Crimson called you dull." How can I explain it to my literary executors? "The painful fact is that, in spite of his eminence, the Harvard Crimson called him dull." And suppose I were not married: "Oh, sir. No, sir. The Crimson called you dull...
Uses of Publicity. Clark talks (and sometimes curses) out of the side of his mouth, though his vocabulary of profanity is limited; his favorite epithet, which he shares with Ike Eisenhower, is "ybsob" (code for yellow-bellied s.o.b.). Clark is no intellectual, knows little and cares less about art and literature; friends estimate that his yearly ration of books amounts to two at the most...
Many in the nation had second thoughts. Union labor, as expected, erupted in violent outbursts. Joe Curran vowed he would strike anyway; other unionists used their angriest epithet-"strikebreaker"-against the President...
...ease in overalls but looks just as much at home in city clothes. Integrity and gravity are written in the character lines of his face. He is deeply religious. He does not swear, but, no prude, he does not hesitate to quote other men's oaths. His fiercest epithet, uttered with terrifying inflection about people who drink too much, is: "Dirty bats!" Gus has never tasted liquor...