Word: innuendo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...such words as "safe," "without risk" and "harmless." Broad casters also often resort to pseudo-pharmaceutical names or impressive "scientific" terms that the average viewer may not understand ("If you're tired from lack of thiamin and riboflavin . . ."). Others relate doctors and celebrities to a product by innuendo...
...high-flown snobbery, demagoguery, pure assumption, suggestion, innuendo, and thinly veneered venom, I can find no equal to TIME'S April 2 story "Democrats...
Your Sept. 5 treatment of the Fifth Amendment issue was a remarkably lucid, informative and objective summary of both sides of the controversy. Lawyer [C. Dickerman] Williams' cogent arguments inject a welcome measure of common sense into an issue so muddled by smears, emotion and innuendo. Why not make such debates a regular feature...
...after hearing her fast-rising record of / Want You To Be My Baby. On stage, her blonde head tossed back, her neat, muscularly curvaceous body sheathed in sequins, Lillian spread her feet, arms and fingers wide and began to sing, with a curious mixture of breezy bounce and bare innuendo: "I want, I want you, I want you to, I want you to be, I want you to be my baby...
...Fake. By sprinkling grains of fact into a cheesecake of innuendo, detraction and plain smut, Confidential creates the illusion of reporting the "lowdown" on celebrities. Its standard method: dig up one sensational "fact" and embroider it for 1,500 to 2,000 words. If the subject thinks of suing, he may quickly realize that the fact is true, even if the embroidery is not. Confidential has four libel suits pending against it (including two started by Cinemactors Errol Flynn and Robert Mitchum). But few of its subjects are inclined to go to court over what the magazine prints. Said...