mccarthyism in English

noun
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a vociferous campaign against alleged communists in the US government and other institutions carried out under Senator Joseph McCarthy in the period 1950–54. Many of the accused were blacklisted or lost their jobs, although most did not in fact belong to the Communist Party.
Computergate was a chilling welcome to a new McCarthyism, a McCarthyism not run by a centralized political authority, but enabled by a specific way of understanding and treating computer technology.

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1. She was a victim of McCarthyism.

2. Many are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America . 19

3. At that time, however, McCarthyism prevailed in the United States.

4. Back in the United States, McCarthyism is at its height.

5. With his resistance to McCarthyism and quantum uncertainty, was Einstein disillusioned at the end?

6. I blamed him and his generation for everything from McCarthyism to the Vietnam War to Watergate.

7. The China lobby contributed to the paranoia that fostered the Cold War abroad and McCarthyism at home.

8. Truman's "truth of war" and McCarthyism in the United States have accelerated the restructuring of foreign propaganda organ.

9. 1 McCarthyism is named after the American politician Joseph McCarthy, who in the 1950s accused many Americans of being Communists.

10. Critics are already saying it smacks of McCarthyism, a reference to the anti-communist hearings back in the 1950s.

11. McCarthyism is the politically motivated practice of making accusations of disloyalty, subversion, or treason without proper regard for evidence.

12. Besides campaigning for a ban on nuclear weaponry, he denounced McCarthyism and pleaded for an end to bigotry and racism.

13. Historian Ellen Schrecker wrote that "in this country, McCarthyism did more damage to the constitution than the American Communist Party ever did."

14. Not until you write your Congressman and demand McCarthyism once again be our national standard, the menage of Chila will continue to grow.

15. Originally coined to criticize the anti-communist pursuits of U. S. Senator Joseph McCarthy, "McCarthyism" soon took on a broader meaning, describing the excesses of similar efforts.

16. It was made by US president Harry S Truman in 19 in response to politically motivated attacks against scientists associated with the dark era of McCarthyism.

17. Still, many Western intellectuals, recoiling from the excesses of McCarthyism, and hampered by lack of firsthand information, gave the benefit of the doubt to Mao in the decade that followed.

18. 11 Originally coined to criticize the anti-communist pursuits of U. S. Senator Joseph McCarthy, "McCarthyism" soon took on a broader meaning, describing the excesses of similar efforts.

19. They argue that the attacks on climate science are ideologically motivated by those who want to delay any action on global warming and that it has resulted in a new McCarthyism.

20. “McCarthyism,” as the hunt for Communists in the United States came to be known during the 1950s, did untold damage to many people’s lives and careers, had a muzzling effect on domestic

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