Word: screaming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...about to exact his pound of flesh for the fifth time from Congress. Four times before he's stymied any opposition to his special investigating committee, charging that anyone opposing it was so facto un-American. Would-be opposers were afraid of consequences back home where local papers would scream they had voted against the "great un-American Activities Committee." Cagey Dies knew his game well. He yelled he was saving America from catastrophy, let the anti-Red press give him free publicity in every corner of the country, and then dared any Representative to vote against his super self...
With only two horror cases in six years to cite, SEC's testimony before Congress made Wall Street scream about manufactured bids for more power. Ganson Purcell calls this charge "the obvious resort of anybody who wants to undermine our efforts to perfect the powers we have...
Peverley's collection, which will be on display for about ten days, includes a German parachute, a blood-stained gunner's pad, two land mines, and several bombs, including an incendiary. One of the bombs has a "howler" attachment, which causes the bomb to "scream" when it falls...
...McCormick, the isolationist scream-bomb, this was a remarkable concession. If the U.S. were to enter the war he might well make much bigger concessions in the name of patriotism-as he and his cousin Joe Patterson (now publisher of the even more successful New York Daily News) did in World War I. If the Colonel again begins whipping up fighting spirit as hotly as he now does isolation, his shift will doubtless cut some interventionist ground from under Marshall Field's Chicago Sun. But the real question of how much strength the Colonel can muster for the battle...
More than half of the undergraduate body squeezed into the Varsity Club quadrangle last night to cheer, bellow, stamp, whistle, scream, and generally emote over their football team in the most successful pre-game rally of Harvard history...