Word: hounding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wool on the Hound's Tooth
...decried the influence peddling of the Truman Administration, the stern moralist who had banished Republicans from the Administration at the first hint of errant behavior, the walking book of ethics dedicated to keeping the Eisenhower Administration spotless, as Candidate Eisenhower put it in 1952, "clean as a hound's tooth." This same Sherman Adams was now being held up in headlines from coast to coast as a man who lent his influence to a friend in trouble with Government agencies. Neither the secondhand reassurances of the President nor the rearguard action of Presidential Press Secretary James Hagerty could...
Delaware's hound's-tooth polisher, Republican John J. Williams, led a parade of five Republican Senators provisionally suggesting an Adams resignation. The other four: Arizona's Barry Goldwater, Michigan's Charles Potter, Maryland's Glenn Beall, Minnesota's Ed Thye. California's Bill Knowland tagged along, intoning that "the facts should be completely disclosed...
Back at the White House at week's end, while the President golfed at Gettysburg, Adams wrestled with his conscience. "It'll be a tough gale to ride out," said one top White House aide. "They are just going to hound him until he has to leave," said Rachel Adams to the Minneapolis Tribune. Adams himself worked away on a day-to-day basis, well knowing that the final decision would have to be his alone. One thing he had already decided: if, after a careful measuring of headlines and political forces, it looked as though his continued...
...moon, in the imaginings of some, plays magic with men's minds, as it does with the wine-dark sea. It is the object of the hound's howl, the songsmith's loony tunes, the lover's gauzy dreams. But the moon itself is above all this, steadfastly gliding on its course, turning little more than half its surface to earth,* a safe 238,800 miles beyond the poets' and peasants' overtures. But not for long; last week, in one of the most extraordinary state documents ever issued by the White House...