Word: innuendo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exercise in justification, McCarthy does not succeed. It is nevertheless a revealing and fascinating book, exposing its author as a man still skilled at innuendo and doublethink. Cohn employs these skills in a brief that is fat with incident and quotation-incident that is sometimes only remotely relevant, and quotation that is usually favorable. One of Cohn's own statements is devastating enough: he writes that McCarthy "bought Communism [as an issue] in much the same way as other people purchase a new automobile...
...former U.S. Treasury Under Secretary, began a month ago when the French President caught the scent of approaching trouble for the pound. Hoping to demonstrate that Britain is unfit for Common Market membership, the French began a clandestine campaign to create a sterling crisis by spreading damaging rumors and innuendo, including false reports of loans to Britain. "This," said Roosa, "was a triumph of mischiefmaking, a parade of viciousness...
...situations. A king, stabbed by his son, can be seen dying in silence so as not to disturb his sleeping wife. And seduction scenes often show spying observers as well as oblivious lovers. Understandably, in time miniature painting became less illustration than a literature in itself, uncommonly rich in innuendo. Its message to modern men seems simply that the message need not be writ large to be a source of a thousand and one delights...
...about a year, record critics and Beatleologists have been listening between the grooves for every little innuendo the Beatles offer up and some that they don't. For example, the Beatleologists struck gold this spring when they found out that "Strawberry Fields Forever" was about a women's penitentiary in Liverpool named Strawberry Fields. Suddenly the title took on a suggestion of eternal imprisonment, and such lines as "nothing to get hung about" revealed a definite gallows humor...
...external control of their operation. At the same time, the editorial freedom of student editors and managers entail corollary responsibilities to be governed by the canons of responsible journalism, such as the avoidance of libel, indecency, undocumented allegations, attacks on personal integrity, and the technique of harassment and innuendo. As safeguards for the editorial freedom of student publications the following provisions are necessary...