Word: tantamount
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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 accucation, no matter how unfounded, is tantamount to guilt...
...these front organizations. The majority sound like all-American groups; most of them are not. But because their communist cores are not always apparent, many people drift into them unknowingly. For example, many groups that collected foreign aid during the war appear on the list. Giving them donations was tantamount to permanent membership, and the charitable are now considered subversives. In cases like this, the innocent can not escape, even if they do realize their mistake, for they are too late to remove the label, "Loyalty risk...
...public. Loyalty within the State Department was made a huge issue during the past election, and it is only natural that congressmen have questioned and will continue to question those officials who participated in policy-making under Democratic administration. If the Secretary of State allows accusations to be tantamount to guilt, he is going to encourage a lot of muckrakers to hound his and other government departments...
...fatten his friends and crush his enemies, talked of his appropriations committee as "the most powerful ... in the world," and pointed out that it took him 29 years to become its chairman. This week, as Tennessee Democrats went to vote for McKellar or Gore in their primary (almost tantamount to election), political observers thought rheumatic old "K.D." had pulled up on Gore, and had made it a neck & neck race...
...said the judges: to throw out Frau von Ribbentrop's contract on such reasoning would be tantamount to Sippenhaft. Freely translated, Sippenhaft means the arrest or punishment of relatives for offenses done by another of the family-an old practice of Hitler's and Stalin's. The court's order: Otto must hire Cousin Rudolf within two years, make him a partner in another two years. By that time, January 1956, the learned court predicted, Western civilization will no longer be scared away or horrified by the name of Ribbentrop...