Word: scattergunning
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...this nebulous person to sound off on foreign policy (especially in such a scattergun fashion) is, to me, ludicrous...
Ever since Sen. John R. Williams (R-Del.) included an attack on ACT in his scattergun blast against Powell on the Senate floor last January, criticism of the Domestic Corps has been widespread; newspapers from the liberal Washington Post to the conservative Chicago Tribune have blasted the Corps; more than 15 Senators and Representatives have attacked ACT in Congress...
...Digest's scattergun criticism, the weighty economic report and Douglas' crusade against the plutogogues shattered any Republican dreams of coasting home in 1960 on the magic carpet of widely shared U.S. wellbeing. A major debate on the economy was abuilding; before it was ended, the G.O.P. might be hard pressed to prove that prosperity is more satisfying than Democratic promises...
...total of 17 witnesses, mostly actors, directors and musicians, refused to make it clear whether they were or recently had been Communists. The whole batch together proved that the frenetic blacklisting by Red Channels, much criticized for its scattergun damage to innocent bystanders, had also scored some clean misses. They also proved a remarkable medical fact: it is still possible in mid-1958, after Korea, after Hungary, after the Kremlin's own post-Stalin confessions, for an apparently sophisticated U.S. citizen to be, or at least make noises that sound very much like, a Communist or a fellow traveler...
...this year), and customers are buying at a rate that will probably surpass the 1956 high of some $750 million. But to Veteran Publisher Alfred A. Knopf, 65, the state of the publishing business is parlous. In the current Atlantic Monthly, Knopf lines up his culprits for a scattergun blast...