Word: hogwash
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...statement that "it is the scandalous disunity among Christians that has alienated men and cheapened the church" is pure hogwash...
...this hogwash about Kennedy cresting too soon, or how miraculous Nixon's surge in the last ten days was-or even what a helluva campaign Nixon ran-frankly pains me," said a prominent Republican in Nixon's home state of California last week. "After the performance he put on during the first two-thirds of the campaign, there was only one way for Nixon to move in the homestretch, and that was up." As politicians of all persuasions sifted the election results last week, most of them agreed on one thing: Dick Nixon came out of the Republican...
...your June 20 story about Archbishop Ritter's declaring that no Roman Catholic student may attend a non-Catholic institution unless written permission is obtained from the archdiocese: to this I say hogwash ! To imply that Catholic educational institutions alone possess and dispense truth is tantamount to admitting "fear of truth...
Teacher Marson scoffs at the idea that objective tests are necessary for a flood of college applicants from widely varying high schools. He believes that percentile grades are "relative hogwash," and that essay exams are irreplaceable. "The fact that not one complete sentence (or paragraph) has to be composed either in the Verbal section of the Scholastic Aptitude Test or in the Achievement Test in English composition has destroyed the function of the old entrance examination that served as a national unifying force in the teaching of reading and writing...
...Washington, FTC's Kintner, 47, patiently puffed his pipe, proudly showed off the favorable mail that came in after the ad. (Sample: "Hogwash. Thanks, Mr. Kintner-Glenn Lewis. Average American. Elkin, N.C.") In Manhattan, other ad agency bosses gagged on their Gibsons, labeled the ad "a phony." Snapped one: "A deplorable exhibition of advertising sophistry at its worst. The public will say, 'That's the way Madison Avenue reacts to criticism-they're thieves and crooks...