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McCarthyism
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McCarthyism
from U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy who acted out morbid fear of aliens, especially Communists. [Am. Hist.: Payton, 409]
See : Xenophobia
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Her latest comments about the expenses scandal will not have brought that moment any closer - one senior Tory dismissed her complaints of a McCarthyite witch-hunt against MPs as "completely wacky".
MP BRANDED 'WACKY' FOR COMMENTS ON EXPENSES by Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England)
He marched with Martin Luther King in Alabama and was blacklisted in McCarthyite Fifties America.
This is what you call real music, for Pete's sake by Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
Ms Chakrabarti, who has been a critic of the Government over issues like the detention of terror suspects, said: "I think this raises very serious questions about just how politicised, even McCarthyite, this operation was.
Liberty threat by Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)
 
 
 
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