Word: hoax
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Haled before a special congressional committee chaired by Maryland's veteran Democratic Senator Millard Tydings, Senator McCarthy replied with thousands of words of obfuscation and counterattack, identified not a single Communist Party member in the Government. The Tydings committee called his charges "a fraud and a hoax." The Truman Administration was part of the history of "20 years of treason," McCarthy insisted-as he kept on making headlines...
...probably no reflection upon freshman spirit to note that the Union's history has been fairly dull since their occupancy, but only such flukes as last year's fire and the recent Jubilee hoax-candidates have drawn any large-scale undergraduate interest to the building. The fire last winter ruined its roof and caused damage to paintings inside...
...posts in the 16 preceding Cabinets that have tried, all unsuccessfully, to govern Indonesia since 1945. When Djuanda returned from a visit to Peking two years ago, he said: "Red China's claim of ability to extend economic or technical aid to Indonesia is nothing but a hoax...
However much they may differ, such programs indicate serious doubts about U.S. higher education. As practiced now. says Assistant Dean John C. Esty Jr. of Amherst, "most education is a hoax. You just don't get it by placing students in juxtaposition to books and professors for four years." The hoped-for symbol of education at its best, says Dean of the College Robert Streeter of the University of Chicago, is "the student alone with his books...
...long as there are over-burdened municipalities, so long as there is need for roads and education, there is no justification for the dividends." The antiadministration Calgary Herald indignantly advised its readers to "treat the bonus with contempt," and the Edmonton Journal denounced the plan as "a great hoax." Largely unheard from: the silent majority of ordinary citizens who will doubtless gratefully collect and happily spend the dividends...