Word: eyewash
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...Eyewash. In Leominster. Mass., Robert J. Cunningham was sentenced to 30 days in the House of Correction after disobeying a traffic signal, squirting an irate cop in the face with a water pistol...
...gaff, perhaps the most rewarding appraisal came on the editorial page under the byline of a Washington monument: Arthur Krock. With tongue tucked tightly in cheek, Krock made it plain that he, like an old friend and news source named Harry Truman, thinks presidential primaries are so much eyewash...
...York City, two of the party's toughest old pros, Pennsylvania Governor David Lawrence and Tammany Boss Carmine De Sapio, held a high powwow (also present: onetime Illinois Kingmaker Jake Arvey) dedicated to the proposition that primaries are eyewash. De Sapio, like his good friend Harry Truman, favors the Symington candidacy. Lawrence let it be known that his heart still belongs to Adlai Stevenson ("the most capable man in either party to be President"), but those who talked to Lawrence thought they detected brain waves for Symington. Both bosses entertain strong private doubts about a fellow Catholic...
...drive a wedge between Poland and the Soviet Union." As for Adenauer's claim that Germany's final repudiation of Hitler was demonstrated by German cheers last week for Dwight Eisenhower, "the victorious army leader against Hitler's Germany," that, said Cyrankiewicz, was so much eyewash. The Germans who cheered Ike, he snapped bitterly, no doubt included "many of our old acquaintances . . . experts on gassing and punitive expeditions...
...rate O'Hara burns, is way too hot for the average U.S. movie exhibitor to handle; and so the producers of this picture, based on O'Hara's latest bestseller (TIME, Nov. 28, 1955), have carefully put out the fire with a steady stream of eyewash -most of it, as a matter of fact, squeezed out of the soggier sections of the book...