Word: hogwash
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...saying again that he is profoundly opposed to a June 15 Supreme Court decision ordering states to reapportion their entire legislatures on the basis of population-the "one man, one vote" principle. To Dirksen, arguments about that issue are "hogwash" and the only question is "whether the Federal Government-in this case the judicial branch-under the Constitution has the right and the authority to dictate the composition of state legislatures." Dirksen called on his colleagues to back the "Dirksen breather"-a rider attached to the $3.3 billion foreign aid bill that would delay states' compliance with the court...
...large. It is our cause to dispel the foggy thinking which avoids hard decisions in the delusion that a world of conflict will somehow resolve itself into a world of harmony, if we just don't rock the boat or irritate the forces of aggression-and this is hogwash...
...surprisingly, her oldest son Bill, 17, rebelled in 1961 against "that hogwash" of school prayers. Delighted to assault what she calls "hypocrisy," Mrs. Murray then and there embarked on a new career as a kind of court mother. The Baltimore public welfare department fired her from her supervisor's job. Various persons-whom she delights in describing as "My Christian neighbors"-have trampled her flowers, broken her windows, beaten up Bill and his young brother more than 100 times. Flooded with abusive letters, she has received everything from a psychotic document endlessly repeating the word "kill" to a newspaper...
...Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Bulkeley, 52, is not the sort to take any guff from Fidel Castro. Last week, when Castro accused the base of using suction pumps to draw off on the sly some 114,000 gallons of Cuban water daily, Bulkeley replied: "Hogwash." Guantanamo was using its own water - the mains from Cuban territory were shut tight. "Castro is calling me a liar," said the admiral, "and I'm mad." Bulkeley then ordered workmen with saws and acetylene torches to the scene, watched as they cut the two pipes leading into the base from Cuba, thus...
...this, Motel Operator John Taylor replies: "Hogwash." He began admitting Negroes to his three North Carolina motels two years ago, has experienced neither a surge of Negro guests nor a drop in white business. But for defensive reasons, most Southern businessmen prefer to act jointly when they integrate: 50 Atlanta restaurants desegregated in a body last week, and 21 Charlotte drive-ins will do so this week...