Word: scummed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...area where the West had any real hope of progress. Every Western proposal for improved East-West contacts was either "inadmissible" or "interference" with Russia's internal affairs. "We will not grant freedom of propaganda calling for an atomic attack," he snapped, or for importing "all kinds of scum of society thrown out by the peoples of the countries of socialism and people's democracy...
...childhood in his new book, Feeding Your Baby and Child, written with Nutritionist Miriam E. Lowenberg (Duell, Sloan & Pearce; $3.75). Young Ben Spock's individual difficulties with food were the commonest kind: he was "something of a feeding problem," "very squeamish about lumps in cereal and scum on cocoa," and could not eat summer squash for 35 years because his mother forced it down him at the age of five...
...reader might still wish to know how an Irish patronymic became the eponym for such an apparently large group of Soviet scofflaws, uncultured types and downright gangsters. Its derivation may be traced to Marx's class-conscious habit of referring to his working-class critics as "Lumpenproletariat, scum, sweepings...
...full-dress narrative to appear in the U.S., told by one of the losers, of the great air battles that were fought over Western Europe in World War II. As a professional flyer's scrapbook, it makes gripping, convincing reading, but it is spoiled, perhaps inevitably, by a scum of Nazi notions that nine years' retrospect and the detergent efforts of a British editor have signally failed to remove. Introducing Knoke, Lieut. General (ret.) Elwood R. ("Pete") Quesada, wartime chief of the Ninth Tactical Air Command in Europe, says: "He was a fine airman, very brave...
...exhibition of the letter-writing skill of the supporters of Senator Joseph R. McCarthy Senator Mike Monroney (D. Okia.) had received this mail when he questioned the propriety of McCarthy's investigation of top-secret Central Intelligence Agency, Among other things, Monroney was called a "Red," a "scum bag," a "traitor," a "rat" and a "nozzle-head." Since the CRIMSON'S editorial telling McCarthy to "put up or shut up" on his charge about Communist professors at Harvard was reported nationally and internationally we have been getting some "pan mail" from some of these people. Some of it is reproduced...