Word: innuendo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...planned a soft-sell campaign to discredit the charges by contending that they are too flimsy and general to be considered grounds for impeachment-the same arguments voiced by Nixon supporters on the Judiciary Committee. One White House political strategist declared: "During the Judiciary Committee debate, inference was king, innuendo was queen, and together they reigned triumphantly over the proceedings...
Safire dazzlingly demonstrated a technique that might be called innuendo by question mark. He asked rhetorically: "What deals were made in secrecy to buy testimony? What bribes of freedom were offered, what coercion used to elicit accusations that might be perjurious? What officials were harassed for daring to criticize? What collusion was there to time indictments to the impeachment process, as in Mr. Connally's indictment on the day the 'abuse of power' article of impeachment was voted upon...
Boudin, now in Peter Bent Brigham Hospital recuperating from recent surgery, says he isn't all that confident that there aren't a lot of people who are "sophisticated" enough to see through the lies and innuendo in the Hunt profile. The fact that "congressmen are still haggling over Nixon's impeachment after the evidence makes it obvious this man can't remain in office," Boudin says, is just one indication of how ignorant people can be. "And if this is what congressmen behave like," he adds, "what about the average American...
...front-paged a long piece revealing an investigation into the possibility that Bahamian gambling money had found its way into the Nixon campaign kitty. The article was crammed with suspicious names and impressive figures, but no proof of wrongdoing had been found. The story amounted to an interesting, extended innuendo...
...story that may have fallen in his lap. Said McGill: "The feeling is not that the reporter is at fault here but that the award is significant only because of the misdemeanor, and that seems to us to be Xerox journalism." White's colleagues defended him from that innuendo. They pointed out that though he spent last summer covering the closing of Navy bases in New England, among other places, he visited San Diego and Washington, D.C., where he cultivated a number of Government sources. "There were those of us who knew the tax story was there," says Journal...