Word: hounding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jogged by the Goldfine hearings, dusted off and passed without debate an innocuous year-old House resolution setting forth a ten-point code of ethics for federal officials. A "sense of Congress" resolution with no legal force, the code urges officials to be loyal, hardworking, fair, clean as a hound's tooth...
...elder Harris' swamp-angel shack where, wrote the New York Post's Milton Gross (a Brooklyn type), "you'll see barefooted and barebacked kids whooping and hollering through the woods and kittens feeding off their mothers in the front room. You'll see cattle and hound dogs and the head of an alligator long since gone. Chickens and hogs and rusty tin cans and discarded tires. You'll see garbage strewn on the ground, flies abounding in the rooms, roaches on the wall and the windows and doors wide open for more to come...
...brief three or four days after Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams' dealings with Boston Operator Bernard Goldfine were first brought to light, President Eisenhower had a chance to accept or demand Adams' resignation and preserve the "hound's tooth" moral standards of his Administration. But he decided to keep New Hampshire-Man Adams principally for reasons of convenience: "I need him" (TIME, June 30). By this week the cost of convenience had risen prohibitively high...
Could be the Republicans will get political rabies from Sherm's clean hound's tooth...
Even in the grave, Health Hound Bernarr Macfadden, who died three years ago at 87, seemed unsafe from the fury of a woman scorned. In a Miami court, Mary Williamson Macfadden, third of his four wives, described her faddist ex as a "predatory philanderer" and a "lecherous spouse," asked that his divorce from her of twelve years ago be set aside on the grounds of fraud and perjury...