Word: innuendo
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...statement for television, McCarthy sent another deletion around to newsmen. The word "now," he said, should be omitted from the sentence: "Apparently the President and I now agree on the necessity of getting rid of the Communists." It was just arrogant Joe's way of stressing the innuendo-and of sinking the blade a little deeper in the area between the shoulder blades...
...unpopular beliefs. To give him more names is merely to provide him with more fuel and to aid him in destroying the lives of men and families. The fact that those named would protest their innocence of criminal activity would not hinder McCarthy; his genius lies in distortion and innuendo. Further-more, to the unreasoning public Communism and treason are one; admission of the former is proof of the latter. Every new name is a headline for McCarthy; every new admission a faggot for hysteria. Franklin V. Walker Tutor in Economics
...first six months of 1953 was a period to warm the cockles of Senator Joseph R. McCarthy's heart. He bounced from headline to headline, denouncing the use of Communist books in U.S.-sponsored overseas libraries, challenging with cloakroom innuendo the appointment of Charles Bohlen as ambassador to Russia, engaging in a transatlantic cat fight with Britain's Clement Attlee. But with the adjournment of Congress, McCarthy had to scramble to keep his name in the big black type. He was beginning to sag as a topic of conversation when Harry Truman came to his aid by injecting...
...Ofttimes an individual is not aware of the artful, clever devices which have been employed to rob a man of his independence of judgment. This may take the obvious form of physical force or the threat of force [or] the subtle form of coercion . . . false innuendo, and even of outright lies." The letter asked the prisoners if they were sure they were making up their own minds, if they had considered their families, if they realized that promises might be false. "There is nothing more humiliating than to discover that one has been a fool, used for someone...
...real point in issue is not the qualifications of the individual concerned. I reach the point merely to clarify a misconception you have fostered in the minds of your readers. Another misconception you advance relates to the degree of innuendo that could be imparted to a Note by a single writer. The truism you mouth, that "mere academic success entitles him to neither a forum for ideology or an instrument for hidden purposes" successfully skirts a disclosure of the technique by which the Review Notes are composed, thus denying your readers an unassisted evaluation of the risk of harm created...