Word: indirectly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...most serious cleavage in the Republican party arises from the mishandling of the McCarthy issue by the White House staff, whose influence is believed to be responsible for goading President Eisenhower into the position of seeking deliberately to punish the Wisconsin Senator. For several months the direct and indirect attacks on Senator McCarthy at the President's press conferences have not gone unnoticed among Republicans who feel that the Wisconsin Senator has performed a service to his country. Literally millions of Republican voters think Senator McCarthy now is being persecuted not for a few intemperate remarks and speeches made...
...work trying to erect a new levee against the Red flood in Asia. Said President Eisenhower: "The United States is actively pursuing discussions with other free nations with a view to the rapid organization of a collective defense in Southeast Asia in order to prevent further direct or indirect Communist aggression in that general area...
Scripps-Howard's Boss Roy Howard stood his ground, answered calmly: "Mrs. Loeb has no connection, direct or indirect, with the management of the concern. She has just the same right to send a telegram as my cook or anyone else. As for Bill Loeb, he is still galled because he can't get his camel nose in this tent...
Drawn Blinds. The hero can see just about everything that goes on in the six or eight flats that rump into the same areaway as his, and Hitchcock, in a masterpiece of indirect exposition, lets the moviegoer play Peeping Tom until all at once he sees something that strikes him as-well, peculiar. That burly salesman in the second-floor flat of the modern apartment building, the one who so patiently nurses the complaining invalid wife-why does he make a number of trips out into the rain, one at 2 a.m., carrying his sample-suitcase...
...just as the investment holdings have had no indirect effect on University policy, Harvard has not endeavored to have any direct effect on these companies except in the role of a minority stockholder. "We have never tried to assert control," reports Cabot...