Word: herring
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Caught in a flareback of history, desperate Democrats tried with might & main to wriggle out of the Harry Dexter White scandal. Their line was different from the flat assertions of outrage ("Red herring," "I do not intend to turn my back . . .") that greeted the 1948 charges against White and Alger Hiss. This time the fact of espionage was more or less admitted. Harry Truman acknowledged that White was disloyal, and even the New Republic said: "There can be little doubt that White was guilty of the actions described by Miss Bentley.'' i.e., passed secrets to the Communists...
...Truman accepted the resignation "with, sincere regret and considerable reluctance." Later that year, White was called to testify before a New York grand jury. After the Bentley and Chambers charges against White and others were made public in 1948, Harry Truman tried to shrug off the accusations as "Red herring...
Clipped Kippers. British Kipper Exporters, Ltd. put on sale in the U.S. the world's first fresh-frozen boneless kippers (smoked herring fillets). Called Edinburgers, they are precooked and formed into slabs. Price...
...keyed Hungarian táragotó, the uniform worn by a student nurse at Passaic, N.J. General Hospital circa 1897, a star-nosed mole, a palatometer, a telegraph crossarm complete with two insulators, an untitled color print of a steak platter and half the braincase of a fossil herring...
...solons present opposed Morse. That is a hefty percentage. After all, Congressman Velde has said that even in colleges, only the disloyal oppose his investigations, and they, he says, are less than one per cent. Something smells red in the Senate, and it isn't herring...