Word: tantamount
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Public Investigation. After the Post's exposé, the paper ran pages of letters from readers congratulating the paper for its "courage" in unveiling the organization. "I feel that what the Post has done," said Houston Teachers Association President Margaret Bliel, "has been tantamount to a [public] investigation." Said Reporter O'Leary: "In America, everybody should have the right to freedom . . . I think the Minute Women had a perfect right to do what they did. But I just think people ought to know that they...
...less national value. The government does not hire physicists whose loyalty status, even by implication, is poor, and private industry is almost as severe in awarding choice jobs. Despite his personal clearance, and seven year service in the Air Force Reserve, to many people his release will always be tantamount to a dishonorable discharge. And he will always be considered a security risk...
...game. To make up time lost by illness, Johnson campaigned by helicopter, with fleets of tank trucks and crews of advance men spread out in his path. He dropped in on ten to 15 towns a day. After running second in the first Democratic primary, he won the runoff (tantamount to election) by a hair-thin 87 votes...
...Precedent. Such a manifesto, the President explained, amounted to a U.S. threat to friends and foes alike in the U.N. Cutting off funds, moreover, would be tantamount to U.S. withdrawal from the world organization, a precipitate act which might destroy the U.N. It might establish a bad precedent, too: other nations could use the same threat as a sort of ex-officio veto power to hamstring the U.N. And, more immediately important, the timing of the resolution was bad, might easily do damage to the tense Korean truce talks...
Professor Lerner said that the Legion's protest was based on supposition, rather than fact, and that its success was a sign of the growing sentiment that accusation, no matter how unfounded, is tantamount to guilt...