Word: roorback
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Stevenson is a roorback specialist. The roorback hibernates during political off-years and roars back to life during national presidential campaigns. Ex-President Truman is a well-known breeder of roorbacks; occasionally they turn on him. His latest encounter with a roorback was well nigh fatal...
...Roorback: A defamatory falsehood published for political effect-Webster's. The word comes from a report published in Whig papers on the eve of the 1844 election, attributed to a fictitious Baron Roorback. The report, an unsuccessful attempt to defeat Democratic Candidate (and slaveholder) James K. Polk, charged that a gang of slaves branded with the initials J.K.P. had been seen on their way to Southern markets...
...rare in high political places was this particular sort of sensation that Washington had almost forgotten the name for it. The last notable roorback* in U.S. history had been the forgery of a James A. Garfield letter in 1880. Last week as a Washington grand jury pursued its investigation it was clear to everybody that "The Hopkins Letter" was indeed a roorback. But a fascinated nation still wondered who wrote...
...Webster: "A defamatory falsehood published for political effect." The word was coined after "excerpts" from a non-existent Travels of Baron Roorback were published in 1844 to discredit James K. Polk...
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