Word: innuendo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...front of onion-domed Russian churches, they find it most rewarding to sit in the office reading Soviet newspapers, magazines and wire-service copy-or to have the translator read them. Some 80% of reporters' stories are culled from these publications, which divulge big news by small innuendo. "If you're any good at all," says Joseph Michaels, who covered Moscow for NBC, "you get to be a weather vane. You catch a scent, like...
...presence of the full Senate any charges or criticisms that they care to make." Said he: "As one who has tried, notwithstanding numerous rebuffs and insults, to cooperate with this committee and to keep this investigation on the proper track, I do not intend that these charges by innuendo go unchallenged...
...then go on to talk as if "Radical Right" were also synonymous with "John Birch Society," "Christian Crusade," and so forth. You refer to "the techniques of distortion and innuendo used by the radical right to question the loyalty of many patriotic Americans." I don't see how your approach differs from the distortion practiced by some hypothetical extremist writing that "The American left was united against Senator Goldwater. Prominent left wing groups such as the Communist Party and the Socialist Workers Party were especially vehement. The ways in which the left is trying to convert America to a Communist...
Majority Leader Mike Mansfield was on his feet, attacking the resolution for its "sly innuendo," when suddenly Case bolted from his seat. "Mr. President," he shouted to Teddy Kennedy, who was then in the chair, "a point of personal privilege!" Mansfield ignored him. Case, arms waving and face purpling, kept shouting. By now, Mansfield was getting pretty hot himself. "I do not yield the floor for any purpose!" he cried. For nearly 20 minutes, the two men yelled across the aisle at each other while Teddy and Parliamentarian Charles Watkins flipped frantically through the rule book. Not quite sure...
...hires a "gentleman's gentleman" named Barrett. Clearly relishing the most substantial role of his career, Dirk Bogarde, perfect as Barrett, assumes a tea-party facade through which the gleam of hellfire is always dimly perceptible. He sabotages the young man's proper fiancee (Wendy Craig) with innuendo, attempting to drive her out of Tony's life. Soon his servile "Would you like a nice hot drink, sir?" moves on to the bolder "Might I introduce my sister...