Word: mongered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After a savage propaganda attack branding the United States as a war-monger, Andrei Vishinsky startled his United Nations audience last week by offering a new Soviet proposal for controling the atomic bomb. In light of Russia's unrelenting barrage of anti-American sentiment, the present plan is probably no more that a decoy to divert interest from President Eisenhower's suggestion of an atomic peace pool. Or it could be a last minute attempt to prevent the United States from winning full support for European defense unity. But because of the sudden reversal in the Soviet position, there must...
...warrior, so often called a war monger, seemed further intent on reversing his reputation. At a time when the tactical situation seemed to demand a show of determination in the face of the confident Communists at Geneva, Sir Winston's head seemed a dream with thoughts of compromise, concessions and soft words. Speaking last week to the Primrose League.* Churchill entered an unexpected personal plea for the establishment of "links" with Russia "which, in spite of all distractions and perils and contradictions, would convince the Russian people and the Soviet government that we wish them peace, happiness and ever...
...commenting on Childs's shift, "has made the job of the columnists impossible. He has to turn out something with meaning five days a week. He can't digest events. He's a victim of inconsistency. He can really become a kind of high-class gossip monger if he's not careful...
...nearly five years Williams has rocked the country again & again with scandals in the Bureau of Internal Revenue. He is no sensation monger. He carefully waits until he thinks his case is airtight, then submits it to the man or the office he is about to attack, promising to print any denial or rebuttal in the Congressional Record along with his charge. Williams says he has never made an accusation of crime that has not been followed by an indictment. He works alone (his only "investigator" is a girl secretary). Many of his leads have been picked up and developed...
...Most of them were mere bush league skirmishes, and none has been half so serious as its write-up in the nation's newspapers. If any groups have relished the disturbances more than the participants, they have been the tawny tabloids, the provincial press, or others of the hyperbole-monger...