Word: besmircher
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...Liberty, Elliott Roosevelt charged Look with "dirty journalism" for printing the "smear" as a factual report. Anna Roosevelt Boettiger, now editor of The Woman, said in her magazine that the Look piece was "glaringly erroneous." She thought it was "a direct attempt to besmirch the . . . memory" of her father...
...Primate. The church knew it was entering a fateful struggle in Hungary. Mindszenty was inexperienced, with little knowledge of the world or of diplomacy. He had, however, two assets that must have recommended him to the Vatican: 1) an anti-Nazi record so clear that the Communists could not besmirch it, and 2) extraordinary strength of character...
...President Painter didn't fire Dobie, but he did bat an eye. After his first year in office, he reported that everything was now tranquil on the campus, and that he would not tolerate "any further attempts on the part of individuals within our staff ... to besmirch the good reputation of the university." Dobie decided that that meant him. In the weekly Texas Spectator, he called Painter "a flunky of the Laval pattern...
...intimate and revealing account of Benchley's attempts and failures to become contaminated by the sordid world of sin, sex, and Scotch. Fresh from a college "notorious for its high living"--remember this is Benchley's story and things have changed since then--he tried desperately to besmirch his unsullied life in such dens of vice as Broadway, Hollywood, and Paris. According to his report he remained disgustingly pure. But one wonders. Benchley could hardly have acquired his knowledge of the finer points of life by reading "Colliers" over an ice cream soda at the Y.M.C.A...
...their God-given heritage just as l am proud of mine. I believe Negroes should have the right [to indiscriminate use of the ballot], and in Mississippi too-when their main purpose is not to put me out of office and when they won't try to besmirch the reputation of my state...