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Word: mongered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paris, Andrei Vishinsky unreeled a long harangue in which he called the Korean truce talks all but hopeless because of the U.N.'s "unreasonable demands." The white-thatched old propaganda monger called General James Van Fleet a "latterday cannibal," added that he was unfit to conduct the truce talks. Since Van Fleet, the Eighth Army's military commander, has no hand or voice in the ceasefire negotiations, Vishinsky's attack was either a willfully silly distortion or a ludicrous mistake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CEASE-FIRE: Hopeless? | 1/28/1952 | See Source »

...part of the function of the Christian minister to be a keeper of the door, to discriminate, to let in or to exclude, provided the criterion be Christ's own . . . The prevailing interpretation of the Christian minister as a gullible, affable sacrament-monger has served the Church ill for three generations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Words of the Week | 1/28/1952 | See Source »

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