Word: wordings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Trap for Me." The Senator got in strong, specific denials. "Not a word" had been said at the Mayflower luncheon about calling off the investigation. Then Brewster sprang his own sensation: the strong implication that Hughes had tried to scare him off the investigation. Brewster said that Hugh Fulton, onetime chief counsel of the committee (under Harry Truman) and later one of Hughes's lawyers, came to him "as a friend of Howard Hughes and a friend of mine." Hugh Fulton, said Brewster, suggested that the investigation might turn out to be a hot potato for the Senator. That...
...written a statement and he read it challengingly: "The public has witnessed two men getting up under oath and saying things which contradict each other. ... It stands to reason one of us is telling something which is not the truth. I have been reprimanded for using the word liar, so I shall try to avoid using the word...
Then Texas-born Hughes went on to describe himself: "I'm supposed to be capricious, a playboy, eccentric, but I don't believe I have the reputation of a liar. For 23 years nobody has questioned my word. I think my reputation in that respect meets what most Texans consider important...
...Inflationary" was the word used by two Harvard economists yesterday to describe the lifting of curbs on installment buying next fall...
...final word on the question to which Walker saw fit to devote two thirds of his letter: was the demonstration Communist? Certainly there were Communists among the demonstrators. So what? Is it surprising that the Communists, who are always the first, but by no means the only victims of fascism and who have always taken pride in their militant anti-fascism should participate in a demonstration against a fascist like Gerald L. K. Smith? It is alarming, as well as more than a little revolting, to see Harvard students diverted from the real issue at hand by the game which...