Word: witchhunters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from Massachusetts, New Jersey and Michigan--was uncontaminated, major supermarket chains took cranberries off the grocery shelves. With a record crop of 125 million pounds to sell, the indignant industry called Flemming's action "unnecessary, untimely and imprudent." The Secretary had embarked, said the growers' spokesman, "on a cranberry witchhunt...
...beliefs, opinions and associations of teachers for several years, has consistently maintained that the student is the ultimate victim of repressions directed against teachers. Events have borne out our warnings that the target cannot be limited--even if that were desirable--to alleged Communists, but that once launched the witchhunt had a logic of its own and ends by engulfing the freedom of all. We are not happy merely at having been proved right, but we are glad that others are seeing the truth of our admonitions and joining the fight...