Word: sows
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McCarthy was also a master of telling an endless flow of little lies to sow doubt and distrust and play on peoples' emotions. For him discourse was a tool of exploitation. That is, language was to be used not for clarification and increased understanding, but for accusation, distortion, misrepresentation, denunciation, defamation- in any number of ways to obfuscate and confuse and by so doing to engender and inflame feelings of hate and anger...
Last year among several egregious examples of distortion and misrepresentation designed to magnify indignation and sow distrust (I cite only two or three examples of a possible many) was the University's alleged "expansion." No attempt was made to understand or accurately report the University's building needs, activities or plans. These are many and complicated, but to our new critics, quite obviously, we were
...with unpredictable results. Some of us will have become radicalized in the view of our colleagues, although probably not as radical as NAC would wish us to be. Even if we could prove to be a lost generation-which I personally call in question-a few of us may sow the seeds of change in our environment...
...woman who wastes few words, came straight to the point. Attending the funeral of an 18-year-old boy killed by an Arab rocket in the frontier town of Kiryat Shemona, near Lebanon, she said: "Under no circumstances will we permit murderers to sit across the border and sow death in our midst. We desire quiet on the borders on one condition: that there be quiet on both sides of the borders." If it happens here, she warned in effect, it will happen there. Last week, 36 hours after her warning, Israel took steps to quiet the other side...
...never will have anything in common with Zionists. We have only one homeland: the Soviet Union." Meetings of Jews were held in factories and on farms to proclaim their satisfaction with life in the Soviet Union. A group of rabbis condemned Zionists as evil men "who every day sow death and destruction on the occupied Arab lands...