I. Mc‧Car‧thy, John /məˈkɑːθi $ -ɑːr-/
(1957–) a British journalist who was kidnapped in 1986 in Lebanon, and was kept there as a hostage until he was set free in 1991 ⇒ Waite, Terry

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II. Mc‧Car‧thy, Joseph /məˈjɑːθi $ -ɑːr-/
(1909–57) a US politician in the Republican Party. He became famous in the early 1950s by saying officially that many famous people, important politicians, and military officers were communists, and therefore enemies of the US. He influenced the development of strongly anti-Communist ideas in the US, and anyone who was called a Communist was treated extremely unfairly. In 1954, however, the US senate formally criticized his actions, and he lost most of his political support and power. ⇒ McCarthyism

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