Word: witch-hunt
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...quite "Who lost China?" - the mantra of Joe McCarthy's witch-hunt that began a purge of the State Department - but Newt Gingrich's attack on Foggy Bottom certainly matches McCarthy for hysteria. Indeed, if the (dare we say "disgraced"?) former Speaker of the House is to be believed, President Bush's foreign policy is being systematically sabotaged by a determined group of fanatics in the very department charged with carrying it out. The evidence? Quite simply that most of the world opposed the U.S. invasion of Iraq; that no UN Security Council resolution could be garnered to authorize...
...height of the terror," writes Taubman, a professor of political science at Amherst College, "Khrushchev gave violent, bloodcurdling speeches rousing 'the masses' to join in the witch-hunt. As Moscow party boss he personally approved the arrests of many of his own colleagues and their dispatch into what he later called the meat grinder." He had other sins on his head, many from a later time; he brutally crushed the 1956 Hungarian uprising, for example...
...University still refuses to release the names of the students, making it difficult to grant them diplomas. But this position ignores the crucial issue—that the students in 1920 had done no wrong and that they were victims of a witch-hunt. By not revealing the students’ names, the University implies that they were accused of some legitimate transgression; nothing could be further from the truth...
...infancy and could only be viewed in bars. Senator McCarthy conducted hearings on un-American activities in the Department of the Army live on television, a first-ever event. These hearings were a magnet for students who were appalled by what was widely viewed as a witch-hunt. Interestingly, “Intensive Russian” was a popular course; students were optimistic that understanding the language of communism was the first step toward building bridges...
...DIED. WALTER GOODMAN, 74, television critic, author and New York Times reporter; in Valhalla, New York. His 1968 book The Committee was widely praised and remains a prominent history of the House Committee on Un-American Activities, which under Senator Joseph McCarthy led the 1950s witch-hunt for communists...