Word: pinkos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Soviet agent, and a neurotic black astronaut who has not made his peace with the white world (an attitude the author finds entirely outrageous) goes mental while in moon orbit. The loudest noise to be heard is Drury rubbing his hands together as he exposes the pinko thinking of all those fluoridating reporters. "It was good to be engaged in a campaign against the government once more," a magazine journalist named Percy Mercy reflects. "It made a man feel right to be blackguarding his own country again...
...call the Union-Leader's political views reactionary would be an understatement. During the 1968 New Hampshire Presidential primary, the newspaper referred to McCarthy canvassers as "a bunch of punks led by a couple of pinko punks." The day after McCarthy's unexpected success in the primary, the Union-Leader draped its front page in black, to signify mourning...