Word: hounding
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...evil, preaches Greene (as he did in his anti-U.S. novel, The Quiet American), can be caused by the relatively innocent. Wormold's phony reports touch off a vicious series of reprisals from sources never quite labeled. The enemy kill and hound real people whom they suspect as Wormold's agents. He is himself abused by Cuban police and nearly poisoned at a businessman's lunch. The deadly joke reaches back to London, where the big boys recognize their mistake but do not dare admit it. The end is heavily ironic...
More than $24 million in time and talent that is scheduled for quizzes this fall was suddenly as suspect as a hound dog with feathers on its face. The air was full of rumors about other shows, involving the most spectacular brain athletes. The audience was just about ready to believe that a Dotto spokesman was talking for every quiz show on the air when he said: "Look, this may be a quiz business to the housewives of America, but to us, it's the entertainment business. There's no reason for the public to know what happens...
...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...