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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The investigation is just another political witch-hunt .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And for Rome to acquiesce in such witch-hunts must indicate that Rome herself felt threatened.
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But the end of McCarthy by no means meant the end of the witch-hunt .
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He does not want the army to feel that it is the subject of a witch-hunt .
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His accusation got nowhere, but it foreshadowed the witch-hunt .
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McCarthy's Communist witch-hunt had been unleashed with the support of leading Republicans and had undoubtedly helped to elect Eisenhower in 1952.
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Nor did a demagogue emerge to match Senator Joseph McCarthy, whose cynical witch-hunts in the l950s put a generation on trial.