Word: innuendo
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Whether or not the occurrence was an accident is immaterial to the question at hand. The reader is quite capable of drawing his own inferences from accurately reported facts. To so report is your obligation to the reader's intelligence. Editorial innuendo has no place on the front page. W. F. Palmer...
...million Dixon-Yates plan with Ike and that "it would come as a surprise to me if he had ever known I was [a director of the Southern Co.]." The next day at his press conference, Dwight Eisenhower observed that he had expected political life to subject him to innuendo from many types of strange characters, but that he was astonished by Mitchell's attack on Bob Jones...
...congressional investigations have proved to be quite such a fiasco as the House Special Committee's inquiry into tax-free foundations. Right from the start, through quotations out of context and broad innuendo, the committee's research staff tried to prove that the foundations have been vaguely unAmerican. Then, just as the foundations began their own defense, Chairman Brazilla Carroll Reece of Tennessee joined his fellow Republicans in abruptly voting to end public hearings; the foundations were invited to reply in written statements...
...switch under his desk.) Hickenlooper could not resist adding a comment born of ten years' experience in Washington: "I think it is ominous . . . when those who decry methods of insinuation and the blasting of characters and reputations on the part of others, themselves use such innuendo and unfounded rumor as the truth in their attempts to attack those whom they do not personally like and whom they would like personally to destroy...
When Committee Counsel Roy Cohn insisted that there was secret evidence, which he could not produce, that Mrs. Moss was a Communist, Arkansas Democratic Senator John L. McClellan bitterly decried "convicting people by rumor and hearsay and innuendo." When Mrs. Moss admitted that she knew a Negro named "Rob Hall" (whom Cohn identified by name as a representative of the Communist Daily Worker), a reporter reminded Democratic members in a whisper that the Worker's Hall (its longtime Washington correspondent) is a white man. Cohn blandly promised to "check" the discrepancy...