Word: innuendo
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...beat out 7,892 competitors from all over the U.S. in the annual National Honor Society "Bright Senior Contest," sponsored by the National Association of Secondary-School Principals. His score on the test: 95 correct answers out of 123. Sample test questions : Who was "the sick man of Europe"? Innuendo is to statement as copy is to -archetype, duplicate, imitation, reproduction, protraction...
Dwight Eisenhower did not miss the innuendo. He stiffened, his eyes sparked and, in a voice that needed no electronic amplification, he barked his answer: I do. Before he appoints anybody to an important post, he said, he calls him in and asks about his philosophy, whether he is biased or distinctly in favor of some doctrinal idea. He always tries to get a man logically devoted to the service, who generally conforms to what the President calls the middle-of-the-road philosophy. He doesn't like extremists, Eisenhower added-particularly those who make up their minds before...
What the Bohlen uproar proved was that McCarthy would continue to bury serious public questions in a mass of personal innuendo unless the executive department improved its timing, and enforced some discipline on its own employees, who run to Senators with rumors and half-baked reports. The serious question buried in the Bohlen case was whether a man who defends the Yalta-Potsdam record, as Bohlen does, is the right man to send to Moscow in a period when the old policies are supposed to be changed...
Both the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Daily Pennsylvanian immediately charged that players had been brought into line by "threats and innuendo"--that they would be branded "cowards" if they persisted in their attitude...
More than one U.S. educator felt he had good reason for fear. "You have today," said President Henry M. Wriston of Brown, "a bullying of the intellectuals of the United States which is intolerable . . . Whenever by slander, by innuendo, by rumor, investigators start to throw mud at the colleges, then every alumnus in every institution of the United States should rise up and say, this has got to stop...