Word: rheum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...launched a bitter broadside at the newly-appointed President of Harvard Mrs. Pusey probably needed all the equanimity she could garner. The junior senator from Wisconsin was never one to give up a grudge, nor Pusey one to run away from a fight; and the Senator's flow of rheum continued. "At first," Mrs. Pusey recalls, "Senator McCarthy wasn't interested in the President of Lawrence College. But the President of Harvard, he knew, was someone who would get him national coverage." She recollects having met McCarthy only once, a youngish, nondescript man on a railroad train parlor...