Word: untold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jewish extremists and had gone home full of untold hatred for the U.S. They watched beadily as the slim, smiling youth received the first, custard-pie impact of an American welcome...
...Pretoria, South Africa's Dutch Reformed Church (1,400,000 members) held a synod, solemnly condemned: 1) cremation ("a heathen custom"), 2) commercial radio programs on Sundays, 3) American comics ("doing untold harm"), 4) Freemasonry, 5) the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights. The churchmen rejected racial and sex equality ("God spoke to Adam, not to Eve"), as well as freedom of speech and opinion: "Heresy and untruth may not be spoken freely . . . The devilish tendencies in man place very definite limits on these freedoms...
...sacred character of Advent, which is a time of becoming preparation for the coming of our divine Savior; 2) the days immediately preceding Christmas are invariably days of fast and abstinence . . .; 3) at many of these parties there is excessive use of intoxicating drinks. These sinful excesses cause untold harm in various ways to the participants and their families. They corrupt the morals and lower the morale of the community and the nation...
Presumably intended to fall into the Mencken tradition was Editor Huie's own lead article, "Untold Facts in the Forrestal Case." Based on word-of-mouth reports about the contents of Forrestal's private papers, it belabored the backbiters and columnists responsible, as Writer Huie put it, for the "destruction" of the late Defense Secretary. Huie, whose book, The Case Against the Admirals, was an air-power fanatic's assault against Forrestal's program for a balanced defense force, now lauded Forrestal as the only Administration leader who had fully realized the threat of Russia...
...tranquility of peace or in the violence of war we may be able to work more efficiently for the common good. But in view of the hopes which the peoples of the world have placed in this nation, they now look only to us. For it seems evident to untold thousands, even from among the most distant tribes, that they have in us a bulwark for the safety and welfare of the world...