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Word: witching (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Liao's loss is expected to set off another round of witch hunting in China's foreign service. There was some concern that the U.S.-China talks scheduled to resume in Warsaw on Feb. 20 might also be affected. Peking assailed Richard Nixon as a "jackal" and demanded that Liao be returned. Repercussions against Liao's family (a wife and two children) back in China could be expected, although there were reports that they had been smuggled out via Hong Kong before Liao made his move...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Espionage: From C to Z | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

...areas of vulnerability--a curriculum not totally controlled by the Harvard faculty and the presence of subjects that can only be defined as military (professional) skills--would not be an appropriate action for the Harvard faculty. I question whether the Harvard faculty would wish to engage in a witch hunt to identify and challenge all "weak courses" offered by the various departments of the university. Better, in my judgment, is an action by the faculty to cause a thorough reappraisal of the ROTC curricula, within the framework of flexibility available to each service, that would make the ROTC courses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Col. Pell's Case for ROTC | 2/3/1969 | See Source »

this is won of thowse buks witch purtens two bee the diry of a reel new england boy with speling like this, saucers is sorcers an job is gob, wile sumtimes awful is awful and sumtimes it is auful. and sometimes Henry Shute spells just like yew an mee. so yew gnow it has two bee a perfickly disengenyewus purrformince. wel awlright xcept the gokes is sumthing feerse-like piching an old lunker eal plum in the senter of the ferst Congrigasionale Chirch picknic with the wimmen timing back summersets an having spells. wonce in a wile tho, it seams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Taist of Frekles | 1/10/1969 | See Source »

...Witch Hunt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROTC Memo from Pell to CEP Warned of National 'Disaster' | 1/10/1969 | See Source »

...said that he favored a thorough faculty reappraisal of the ROTC program "within the framework of flexibility available to each service." He said he doubted, however, that the Harvard faculty would want to engage in "a witch hunt" to search out all weak courses in the University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROTC Memo from Pell to CEP Warned of National 'Disaster' | 1/10/1969 | See Source »

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