Word: slur
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...then, as reporters bolted for telephones. And as soon as Engine Charlie's latest hit the front pages, the predictable sound-off began in virtually every state. Some called Charlie's statement asinine, illadvised, ridiculous, foolish and absurd. Georgia's governor rapped it as "a dastardly slur," Wyoming's as "an un-American utterance." Major General (ret.) Ellard A. Walsh, 69, president of the potent National Guard Association, called it "a damned lie." The South Carolina house of representatives passed a resolution declaring it an "insult" to the state, and the Rhode Island senate passed...
Nothing would erase Charlie Wilson's slur on the honor of the U.S. Senate. Its armed services special subcommittee on airpower listened unbendingly as Air Force Secretary Donald A. Quarles tried to head off the proposed increase. The Air Force, he said, already has "the most powerful striking force on earth." But then, illustrating an astonishing Air Force two-headedness, Quarles admitted that Air Force Chief of Staff Nate Twining thought he needed an extra $7 billion over and above the budgeted $16.5 billion for the coming fiscal year to boost the number of bomber wings from eleven...
...faculty has joined in the new mood -notably the scientists. "Religion used to be disreputable-a slur on the intellect," says History Don Harry Pitt, fellow of Worcester College. "We now feel that the brain need not be pulpy to embrace religion...
...would have experimented with the best results, with and without the added weight. As it was, I did not hope to smuggle a 200 or 300-lb. block of iron, lying on the trunk floor, through a microscopic inspection. Aside from moral and racing considerations, this is a slur on the mentality of one who got all the way to Florida all by himself...
...first, as secretary and protege of the retired but influential courtier-statesman Sir William Temple, he seemed to see the world at his feet. Then came the inevitable slur, or imagined slur, for Swift had the thinnest of skins. He left Temple's protection only to learn that pride is a luxury to the poor. Then a kinsman, the great John Dryden, saw his verses and said: "Cousin Swift . . . nature has never formed you for a Pindaric poet." At 26 he entered holy orders "as [one joins] a regiment." He was tormented by pride and used this...