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