Word: innuendo
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Observers, watching blushing Democrats toss this hot and unsavory mess back & forth, decided that the Party had spilled the biggest mess of the campaign and then stepped in it themselves. Charging the Democrats with running a campaign of innuendo, the Baltimore Sun declared: "This sort of thing cannot go much further before even the heavy thinkers responsible for it will begin to see that it is a boomerang...
...cool as a julep, never quite understanding the sudden transformation of the husband she was about to divorce. The reappearance of cinema's No. 1 man-&-wife team results in split-second timing of some of the sauciest dialogue since the Hays office eased the ban on innuendo...
...statement "still the bills piled up" is untrue. The meaning of that paragraph (by innuendo) is that the change of name and reorganization were useless-that insolvency continues, which is entirely untrue. The hospital is on a cash basis, meeting all bills as presented. It is not "impoverished," but in fact is in very good financial condition...
Shaking with fury, Hopkinson, who is known for his fine war record and constant advocation of a large air force, turned to the Speaker: "I ask your protection, Mr. Speaker, against this gross and lying innuendo...
...speech opening the Diet, newly restored Foreign Minister Arita disclaimed any intention of eliminating "legitimate rights and interests" of the U. S. in China. This unctuousness, coming just after U. S.-Japanese trade relations fell treatyless, was punctured by a sentence which was a cactus of innuendo: International conflict, said Mr. Arita, is "largely due to the fact that some nations insist upon trying to maintain an irrational and unjust international status quo relative to race, religion, territory, resources, trade, immigration and other matters by adopting exclusionist policies or by abusing their superior positions...