Word: hooverness
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Most bewildered of all are the city's Republicans. Clyde Brummell, 47, a carpenter and a Republican precinct committeeman, says: "When I was growing up, all I heard was that Herbert Hoover caused the Depression. Now they are trying to Hooverize the Republican Party again, saddling us with something we didn't cause...
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...campaign, Pogo gracefully conceded the election to Eisenhower. Kelly introduced an unshaven wildcat named Simple J. Malarkey, who resembled the then-rampant Joe McCarthy and abused civil liberties in Okefenokee. Nikita Khrushchev appeared as a grumpy pig. Portraits of Lyndon Johnson as a nearsighted longhorn steer, J. Edgar Hoover as a squat bulldog and Spiro Agnew as a hyena occasionally annoyed editors and readers. As a result, papers sometimes dropped the strip. Kelly professed indifference ("They usually come back"), but he sometimes prepared alternative, apolitical episodes and let his subscribers choose...
...there," notes Kaplan, "the court did not have much trouble deciding he could get a fair trial." Manson was, of course, convicted. But Philip Berrigan and the rest of the Harrisburg Seven got off, even after their alleged conspiracy to kidnap Henry Kissinger was loudly leaked by J. Edgar Hoover. Furthermore, the inevitability of leaks and publicity in famous cases, as well as modern means of communication, has long since rendered obsolete the notion of the pristinely "ignorant" jury. Experience in such trials has demonstrated the precautions that can protect the process-a delay to let the pretrial publicity...