Cultural English 299

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Topics: McCarthyism and the House Committee on Un-American Activities; Famous Songs: Dixie; to overrate versus to overestimate; that versus so; the stakes are too high

Words:
McCarthyism
Red Scare
to play on
demagogue
hearing
to blacklist
to change (one’s) story
to gauge
sense of decency
Dixie
blackface
frost
to overrate
to overestimate
that
so
the stakes are too high

Category: Cultural English