Word: innuendo
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...interesting work. At the same time that reader will find parts of the book completely unintelligible; he will not know who Algren is talking about, what incidents are involved, or even when it all took place. For Algren has criss-crossed his pages with symbols, quick references and innuendo about things only a resident of Chicago and reader of its newspapers could really appreciate...
...betrayed, for an unshaken man, a certain nervousness. He sent Congress a special message, urging that all important officials of the federal Government and political leaders of both parties be required to make public their annual incomes from all sources. His reason: "Attempts have been made, through implication and innuendo and by exaggeration and distortion of facts, in a few cases, to create the impression that graft and corruption are running rampant in the whole Government...
...Said the University of Kansas' new Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy: "Character assassination by innuendo and half truth, with careless regard for the facts . . . will inevitably lead to a paralysis of free thought just as debilitating to American democracy as the conduct of those who would utilize American institutions to overthrow and subvert these same institutions . . . Stifle the intellectual freedom of our universities, and you stop the progress of American democracy." ¶ Said Cornell's new President Deane W. Malott, former chancellor of the University of Kansas: "The fearful ones who hate and condemn the liberalism in our colleges...
Commando Tactics. But there, anticlimactically, Maurice Tobin dropped the subject. He scrupulously avoided mentioning Joe McCarthy by name. He barely skirted the real case against McCarthyism-the technique of innuendo and slippery half-truths that deliberately confuses ends and means. And, with his glancing blow, he gave McCarthy's supporters just the right opening for a burst of commando tactics. Before Tobin could walk off the platform, a delegate grabbed a floor microphone. Over the loudspeakers his voice boomed out: "I demand that we invite Comrade McCarthy here to give us the other side of this story...
...mayor, firing back from the depths of the American embassy in Mexico City, cried that the committee's conclusions were "fantastic." Said he: "For reasons unknown to me, a concerted effort has been made, by inference and innuendo, to discredit me on a personal basis. Of this I have no fear. My public life is a matter of record . . . My achievements were hailed on all sides...