Word: exploitatively
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...Millard Tydings, chairman of the subcommittee currently probing the case, appeared to want to be rid of the whole thing. Justice's Mclnerney appeared to be mainly interested in defending the extraordinary performance of the Justice Department. On the Republican side, Congressmen appeared to be more anxious to exploit half truths than to get at whole truths. Wisconsin's Joe McCarthy, largely responsible for the latest furor, had dug the case out again in his effort to discredit the State Department, and that seemed to keep many a solid Republican from joining in the demand for a full...
...Bernardo's words became the talk of Argentina, the embarrassed government silenced Radio El Mundo for 24 hours, suspended its hapless announcer. "To make fun of people's ignorance and to exploit their confusion," warned the Ministry of Communications, ". . . is not in keeping with the educational, artistic or cultural aims of the nation." Henceforth, it was decreed, all radio programs in which the public would have access to the microphone are banned...
That the University would destroy housing and thus, in effect, create a shortage for unscrupulous landlords to exploit is both uncharitable and unforgivable. These persons are out to take the married student for all they can get and to sell their shoddy goods at the highest price the traffic will bear. For those of us who have given up a great deal in order to come to Harvard, such a coldly indifferent act on the part of the University provides slight basis for any affectionate regard toward it, now or in the future . . . Name withheld by request...
...effort to exploit Dartmouth's weak stickwork, Crimson coach Dolph Samborski will start his number one pitcher, Bob Ward. Mueller will probably counter with lefty Rufus Tilden...
...strategists assumed that the Red Army could roll almost unopposed to the Atlantic if they decided to take the great chance on World War III. But it might be more prudent to capture Western Europe through the ballot box. Accordingly, Western European Communist Parties concentrated on political drives to exploit economic misery and insecurity. Their success was checked by the Marshall Plan, but they still knew that in event of war Western Europe offered no military obstacle to the Red Army. Last fall the Kremlin realized that the U.S. military aid program might change that fact...