Word: hogwash
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...such pop sociology as The Grandees and The Right People has given him biases that he has a hard time shaking. While as a fictioneer he likes to wallow in romance, as a social commentator he writes an analysis of Harvard club life which is the sort of hogwash upon which climbers thrive. But just because this isn't the sort of biography that will endear Marquand to posterity doesn't mean that it isn't entertaining...
...refuse to believe that your cover of Oct. 2 shows two profiles, each depicting a different view of American life. What is shown, in fact, is a chalice-the one from which all Americans drink up the hogwash that both candidates spew forth...
...committee chairmen, including the House Education Committee's Carl Perkins of Kentucky. As hearings opened in a Senate subcommittee, HEW Secretary Elliot Richardson defended Nixon's proposals. Missouri Democrat Thomas Eagleton bluntly branded Richardson's arguments for the President's compensatory education plan "hypocritical hogwash...
After whizzing through four states, shaking every available hand, bombarding young and old with "no hogwash" speeches, supping with financial backers and hopping with Hopi Indians in front of television cameras, Oklahoma Senator Fred Harris announced his candidacy for President in what was an anticlimax. By looking earthy and talking plain, Harris hopes to put together a "populist" coalition of society's "left-outs." He plans to enter the primaries in Florida, West Virginia, New Mexico and California, where he thinks a Populist approach may pay off. Like George McGovern, the only other announced candidate, he must be considered...
Selective Service officials just as promptly announced that the Pentagon estimates were hogwash and that everyone should worry just as much as they had in years past. Everyone did, because most draft officials warned that they would probably be drafting everyone...