Word: innuendo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Late last week Colson sat down with TIME Correspondent Simmons Fentress. Bitter about the press, Colson charged that newsmen were "playing the game of innuendo to try to get after the President." He called it "bloody outrageous." He was especially angry at Washington Post Reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, who first reported Hunt's claim that Colson had suggested a Bremer burglary...
Through leaks and innuendo, his enemies have tried to discredit his testimony in advance by describing him as a craven, cowering man who is testifying only to save himself from prison where he fears homosexual rape because of his blond-boyish good looks. Dean denies having such fears and has used his own attorneys and associates to portray himself as being interested only in getting the truth out. But first he demanded immunity from prosecution for what he says, and he slipped tidbits of information to various newspapers and magazines in an effort to win their support in his campaign...
Yesterday's mass resignation came 13 days after the President announced that his own investigation of the bugging scandal had brought "major developments" to his attention. Thirteen days of innuendo, 13 days of leaks to the press, 13 days of endless rumor. Although the recent revelations clearly demanded immediate honest and forthright action, the President chose to retire to the solitude of Camp David, Md., to contemplate the effect of the Watergate affair, and to decide what moves must be made to save his Administration from ruination...
...Clark MacGregor, then chief of the Committee for the Re-Election of the President, said: "Using innuendo, third-person hearsay, unsubstantiated charges, anonymous sources and huge scare headlines, the [Washington] Post has maliciously sought to give the appearance of a direct connection between the White House and the Watergate, a charge which the Post knows-and a half a dozen investigations have found-to be false...
Haynsworth's opinion restricts its precedent to colleges connected with state governments. But because state universities are most subject to public opinion and political innuendo, campus newspapers at state-operated institutions have been subject to the most administrative meddling in the past decade. The notable examples have been...