Word: obloquy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...picking Bob Dole, 53, Ford signed on the most accomplished gunslinger in the party, a man who makes his points not with obloquy or the cement fist or leaden tongue of a Spiro Agnew, but with an acerbic wit that often leaves everyone but the victim laughing. Dole has characterized Senator Edmund Muskie as "a political Rip Van Winkle who awoke and started to attack Nixon," and he once dismissed former Attorney General Ramsey Clark as a "left-leaning marshmallow...
Despite disturbing signs of voter apathy, the 1974 elections could bring significant changes in the U.S. political landscape. Republicans cannot seem to escape the obloquy of Watergate and a mismanaged economy. In governorships, the Democrats now hold a 32-to-18 edge, hope to increase it to 38-to-12. In the Senate, the Democrats hope to improve their current majority of 58-to-42 by three or four seats. In the House, with all 435 seats at issue, the Democrats look to improve their present 248-to-187 standing by anywhere from 30 to 50 seats. With the balloting...
...balanced and meticulously researched biography, Dublin-born journalist Brian Inglis traces the Sophoclean confluence of events and experiences that led Casement to fame, obloquy and the gallows as yet another martyr for Irish freedom. How high Casement rates in that mad hierarchy depends on how history will eventually assess the shadowed side of his nature. Casement was a rapacious homosexual, a fact that was never suspected until his arrest in 1916, when Scotland Yard seized his private papers. Its most notable find was the so-called "black diaries" which Casement supporters erroneously denounced as forgeries. The diaries document his obsession...
...HOUSE UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES COMMITTEE IN THE MCCARTHY ERA. The First Amendment says in no equivocal language that Congress shall pass no law abridging freedom of speech, press, assembly or petition. The activities of this Committee, authorized by Congress, do precisely that, through exposure, obloquy and public scorn...
Response to Pressure. From the beginning, the case has been shrouded in obloquy and obfuscation. An initial county grand jury charged only the seven Panthers. Then a federal grand jury, investigating whether the civil rights of Hampton and Clark had been violated by police, declined to indict anyone, but did report that-contrary to police claims-there was evidence that only one bullet had been fired by the Panthers compared with at least 82 by police. Shortly before the federal grand-jury report, Prosecutor Hanrahan's office had abruptly reversed itself and decided to drop the Panther indictments because...