Word: pinko
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...midsentence. They sound off pugnaciously on politics and make brash forays into sex. Among their most frequent targets are homosexuals, women, and ethnic and racial minorities. When challenged, they are apt to say things like, "You come down here, boy, you yellow-bellied, egg-sucking dog, bedwetter, pinko Commie " They are the abrasive breed of radio and television personalities, most of them talk-show hosts, who treat their profession as a verbal adjunct to street fighting. But if their hectoring style wins enemies as well as friends, no matter-the ratings count both...
...tellin ya," he interrupted, "there's sompin crazy goin' on here. This old guy's runnin' aroun' here, he's flipped a lid or sompin. Damn Pinko. He's got a commune...
...Naming Names, a "moral detective story" into congressional investigations of Hollywood in the 1950s, would certainly have been a victim of the McCarthy era blacklists. His liberal credentials as a former editor of The New York Times and author of Kennedy Justice place him squarely in the "effete," "pinko" intellectual establishment that bore the brunt of McCarthy's character assassinations. Navasky knows this, and there is a bitter urgency about his reexamination of the '50s, whether he is writing persuasively in Naming Names or speaking quickly In a hotel bar. Here is a man who wants to prevent history from...
...people had marched down Fifth Avenue in New York City in support of a nationwide Women's Strike for Equality. And the final straw--when those radical weeklies, Time and Newsweek, featured the WLM in cover stories, the FBI knew the time had come to move on this growing pinko-inspired threat...