Word: pinko
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ferocity and cheek. A chronic vendettist, he repeatedly bared his teeth and his quill in Winchell feuds: against Singer Josephine Baker ("pro-Fascist, a troublemaker"). the Stork Club's Sherman Billingsley (they quarreled over a pack of cigarettes), Ed Sullivan (''style pirate"), the New York Post ("pinko-stinko sheet"), the "fourth estate" ("All those columnists rapping me-where do you think they get their material? They go through my wastebasket"), and everybody ("Look. I want to get back at a lot of people. If I drop dead before I get to the Zs in the alphabet...
...remembered him. "I was offered a job," he recalls ruefully, "in Jack Dempsey's bar." Then an appearance with Eddy Duchin got him started again. When World War II started, he traveled the world once more, entertaining troops. After that he settled in Hollywood and into its pinko parlor politics...
Nothing will convince me that democracy has at last arrived on the Cuban scene. Fidel Castro and his entourage of pinko opportunists are only adding another act to the Cuban tragedy. Batista and Prio were not much as practitioners of freedom, but I'm sure most Cubans and Americans were shocked to hear dictatorese spout from the hirsute hermit so soon...
...this was no sign that Mao was now calling the tune in the Communist world, or, as London's pinko New Statesman put it, that "Communism has two capitals, two spokesmen of equal weight." It suggests that Mao is a drag who on occasion has to be heeded. A nation of 600 million cannot be treated like Bulgaria...
Arrested and charged with espionage in 1945 for furnishing State Department documents to the editor of the pinko Amerasia magazine, Service was cleared by a grand jury, and then investigated and cleared six times in six years by State Department loyalty boards. In 1951 he was summarily dismissed by Secretary of State Dean Acheson after the Civil Service Commission's Loyalty Review Board found "reasonable doubt" as to his loyalty. _ Last June the U.S. Supreme Court, ruling on a legal point and not on loyalty, held that the Secretary of State had exceeded his authority in dismissing Service...