Word: innuendo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wishes of the valued customer. According to a source at a major New York City investment bank, the questions asked about Iacocca by the investigators were of a particularly leading and accusing nature. This, said the source, was, as much as anything, responsible for stirring up rumor and innuendo about Iacocca...
When an interviewer asked his opinion of the televised Army-McCarthy hearings in 1954, Mather said they were, "a magnificent thing" that allowed the public to have "direct observations of the methods used in investigations of this sort: guilt by association, built by accusation, use of innuendo, distortion of facts, use of half-truths when the whole truth presents a different picture...
Last week Miller handily passed the test. After five weeks of slipshod investigation, the staff of the Senate Banking Committee had compiled 1,400 pages of testimony and evidence about alleged bribery by Textron to push sales of its Bell helicopters in Iran; leaks had inspired innuendo-filled stories in the press. But in nearly four hours of face-to-face grilling, Miller convinced the Senators that there was no proof that Textron had in effect resorted to bribery, and still less that he as boss had condoned it. In a stinging rebuke to its own chairman, Wisconsin Democrat William...
...nonwhite neighborhoods. Nor does he hesitate to bite the CBS hand that feeds him. He has accused the Tribune's TV critic of being soft on the CBS-TV station; he has twitted his network's leading local anchorman for commentaries distinguished only by "implication and innuendo." The Sun-Times stopped accepting massage parlor ads after Madigan protested, and the voiding of parking tickets among reporters dropped sharply after a Madigan expose...
Soon afterward, he turned his love affair with the English language into a profession. They have been an item for 47 years, spanning forays into sexual innuendo (Shakespeare's Bawdy), A Dictionary of Cliches, and Partridge's most famous work, A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English. Until an operation several years ago left him quite frail, Partridge spent his days in carrel K-1 of the British Museum Library, reading everything from pulp novels to plays (consuming "about 80% of all comedies written in English between 1530 and 1970" for his latest work). In the tradition...