Word: huckstered
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...U.P.I. editors, Goldwater made a slashing, campaign-style attack on President Kennedy's "response to blackmail demands" in the Cuban tractor deal. Goldwater denounced U.S. Information Agency Director Edward R. Murrow (who has defended the deal) as a "Government-paid huckster," declared that "if official policy is so shaky that the USIA has to be utilized to sell it to our own people, then that policy should be abandoned in favor of one that the American people can support." Labeling John Kennedy's cold war policy as "almost calculated confusion," Goldwater called for the President to lay down...
...indulge themselves, and they have been conditioned by the dramatic progress of medicine in the past few decades to believe that almost any pill, capsule or tonic is a miracle drug. People are disease conscious, and their fears about disease set them up for exploitation by the pseudo-scientific huckster...
CHARLIE BROWER does not fit the popular image of the Madison Avenue huckster. He is low key instead of high pressure, prefers brown worsteds to grey flannels, Rob Roys to Gibsons, New Jersey to Connecticut's Fairfield County, still lives in the Westfield, NJ. home that he has owned for 20 years, keeps a Manhattan apartment for himself and his wife...
Even amid huckster cries of "Peace, Progress, and Prosperity," Harvard's undergraduates still include a core of the unconvinced--those who see peace as just a precarious balance of the atomic brink of "massive retaliation," who believe that our progress may be misguided and our prosperity poorly allocated...
Even amid huckster cries of "Peace, Progress, and Prosperity," Harvard's undergraduates still include a core of the unconvinced--those who see peace as just a precarious balance of the atomic brink of "massive retaliation," who believe that our progress may be misguided and our prosperity poorly allocated...