Word: besmirches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...made a determined effort to keep himself wrapped in the noisome rags of his old preeminence. When he heard testimony that he had left the Royal Palace a rat-ravaged, bottle-strewn shambles, he replied stiffly: "I took care of the Palace very well indeed-you are trying to besmirch my good name...
...like to give too much support to the naive Boston pressism which alluded to local yokels and juvenile pranks. We understand that strange recurring of letters such as TECH and MIT just popped up out of nowhere. Looks as if someone were deliberately trying to besmirch the fair reputation of Fair Harvard's fair neighbor. Or maybe it was done with slide rules...
...first major scandal to besmirch a big-time war producer hit the headlines just over a year ago (TIME, Jan. 4, 1943). In Fort Wayne, Ind., and Pawtucket, R.I., the Anaconda Wire & Cable Co.* was indicted for deliberately delivering to Russia and to the U.S. Army Signal Corps equipment dangerously below standard. Last June the Fort Wayne case wound up with the maximum fine ($10,000 and costs) for Anaconda Wire, lesser fines for five officials and suspended jail sentences for three of them...