Word: witch-hunt
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...colony to which Mather now returned was in a turmoil over the great witch-hunt, which continued unabated; still no voice of authority had been raised against the trials. It would be pleasant to report that Increase Mather immediately flamed with indignation at the witchcraft craze, but the issue hardly seemed to rouse him at first. His long-neglected duties at Harvard absorbed his attention and he apparently saw no reason to question the verdicts of the duly-constituted authorities of the colony, men for the most part trained and educated at Harvard College...
...that it may encourage many national, state, and local legislators to conjure up subversive control of bills of their own such as the Maryland Ober Law and its pending Massachusetts imitation. Another is that administrators may use it to bludgeon criticism and unpopular beliefs into silence, thus resurrecting the witch-hunt of the '20's complete with its smear and arbitrary methods. And yet another implication is that this act and its effects may become permanent even after the present tide of pressure, passion, and fear has receded...
Representative Good, another Committee member asked Putnam to define the term Witch-hunt...
Later he shouted: "I am not here to red-bait. I'm not here to witch-hunt. I'm not here to smear innocent persons." Who, then, was he there to smear? Dorgan was evasive. M.I.T.'s Dirk Struik? "Struik, they asked him if he was a Commie and he said, 'Of course not, but I'm a good Markist' (sic). And you all know what Karl Marx was. That's like saying, 'I'm not a thief but I'm a good pickpocket...
Lynch claims it would not be a "witch-hunt" but rather a "traitor-hunt." He yesterday said that at Harvard "98% of the faculty are 100% American, but there are a small minority who are trying to undermine democracy...