Word: innuendo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Once again, by any innuendo he could conceive, or any indiscretion in Washington he could seize on, Diefenbaker tried to stir up anti-Americanism, a brew not so effective as it once was, but still heady. "Nobody pushes Canada around," he warned, especially not a nation that took 27 months longer than Canada to enter the Second World War. The Toronto Star accused him of talking like "some alcoholic patriot in a tavern...
Ryan avoided none of these issues, though he of course straightened out the innuendo in his speeches and campaign literature. He said at the time, and repeated last night at Quincy House, "the real issue against Zelenko was liberalism in Congress...
McCarihyite Innuendo. While Galbraith listened stony-faced from the Tory benches, Macmillan added: "It was also said that my honorable friend was believed to have spent holidays abroad with Vassall before." Explaining that his informant had heard this account of the case from "a leading member of the press." Macmillan declared: "This story, if it were true, would amount to something akin to treason...
Earlier, Macmillan had denounced "speculation and innuendo" arising from a series of 25 fairly innocuous letters from Galbraith that had been discovered in Vassall's apartment (TIME, Nov. 16). Now he declared that, "however preposterous, however wicked and however vile" the charges, it was his "duty" to appoint a judicial tribunal to investigate the story -though hitherto he had brushed aside persistent Opposition demands for such a tribunal. This, Macmillan concluded, was "the only machinery open to us for the defense of innocent men if they be innocent, but for their condemnation if they be guilty...
...dissatisfied Negroes, is a dramatic demonstration of such blindness. Perhaps only the most naive of these White Citizens really believe that the civil rights dilemma in the South can finally be solved by eliminating the area's Negro populace. But, judging at least from the official verbiage and innuendo, these Southerners have decided to show that if there were as many Negroes in the North as there are in the South, "the damn Yankees wouldn't like them either...