Word: tangent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This is a lazy basis on which to judge a man's loyalty, or even the simple value of his opinions. A man's thinking may strike a tangent to a party line, but Senator McCarthy and his fellows can only see the point of tangency, and none of the divergence. And they are ruling out the annoying but perfectly plausible possibility that some day we may find ourselves agreeing with Communists about some issue--we may not like to remember it, but there have been long periods of such agreement. McCarthy and far many people have become so concerned...