Word: knaves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There is freedom, however, to debate governmental policies and discuss programs-but within limits," Mather explained. "Anyone who proclaims that Tito is a knave or a nitwit is going to land in jail in 24 hours...
...whole affair at Seattle has the macabre air of the trial of the knave of hearts in Alice's Wonderland. Dr. Allen invents interpretations; Miss Thompson and Mr. Smith sit in the Jury Box, busily scribbling "due process" on their slates; and the rest of the press shout "off with their heads." But while Alice's dream of the knave's trial vanished, we may find the nightmare of the University of Washington spreading to legislators and trustees all over the country...
...envisioned ideal state of happiness becomes in actuality a totalitarian government ruling in the most autocratic manner. It may be that we are abetting Red propaganda every time we use the term "Communist." . . . A person in our country who favors Russia and its ideology must be either a knave or a fool, and the Communists themselves must have their dupes and stooges as well as their helpless victims. Let's aid the cause of democracy in the U.S. and abroad by developing an authentic, descriptive word...
...some fun." After that, things calmed down a bit, as contestants tripped on the tricky and the tough ones: remuneration, victuals, catarrh, integrity, censure, subtle, vaudeville, ukulele, bilious, ecstasy, granary, paraphernalia, hybrid, corollary, auricle, pugnacity, awry, diocese, quay, colossal, tutelage, idiosyncrasy, fuchsia, corroboration, rhinoceros, dysentery, desiccate, scintillate, proselyting, bellicose, knave, sarsaparilla...
Britain, says Cards on the Table, will not take sides in a line-up for the next world war, will cooperate with the U.S. only on specific issues "where there is a clear common interest." Winston Churchill, obviously the Knave of Clubs in the deck, "wants a permanent alliance with America against what he sees as a permanent political danger." Ernie Bevin, the King of Hearts, "wants as close an association with Russia as we have now with America...