Word: lambast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There were, of course, threatening calls charging Du Mont with being "anti-union." The Transport Workers' brogue-nurturing Boss Mike Quill, appearing on Wendy Barrie's show over Du Mont's Manhattan WABD, took the opportunity to lambast Du Mont because "they showed unions in an unfavorable light." Indeed, the three inquisitive cameras played so deftly and pitilessly across the faces of real-life labor hoodlums that many of them looked as if they must have stepped out of Central Casting. Director Ed Schearer of Washington's Du Mont station WTTG ranged two cameras along...
When lecturers and instructors lambast "big business," the "Republican Old Guard," the Secretary of the Treasury, a balanced budget, the gold standard, Government economy, inheritance laws, and private ownership of certain means of transportation and media of communication, many students undoubtedly wonder why they are in the course. Certainly many Government concentrators wonder why they are required to take the course. When one of the lecturers declares that "this course will give you the answers to those questions" (concerning the proper role of Government), one wonders whether any course at Harvard is designed to "give answers." Rather, he thinks...
...senator has retaliated with a libel suit, and a battle-royal has been waged in the newspapers. Since October 15 McCarthy has twice repudiate one of the Association's most reactionary stands made while he was president--its opposition to the federally-subsidized school lunch program. visited Connecticut to lambast Benton in fiery speeches. Purtell, an Irish-Catholic, did not invite McCarthy into the state, but appeared with him on various platforms across the state and has endorsed his fight for re-election in Wisconsin, McCarthy has little following among Connecticut Republicans, and Benton is using the issue...
...comment rationally on the Senator's speeches and campaign." Snapped Crider: Choate "thinks you must pull your punches in the event that the candidate you don't like wins the nomination. I feel that you must not only support the guy you're for, but also lambast...
...Wroclaw (formerly Breslau) in Poland in 1948, a "group of French and Polish intellectuals" held the World Congress of Intellectuals. Many men of good will attended, to hear Russians like Alexander Fadeyev, secretary general of the Union of Soviet Writers, lambast America. Some, like British Scientist Julian Huxley, returned to complain in apparent bewilderment that the congress "preached war, not peace." The congress paid no attention, elected a permanent International Committee of Intellectuals in Defense of Peace, and planned national branches to hold other peace meetings...