Word: impugning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...statesman whose name is likely to elude the most earnest followers of affairs in the U.S. Senate, got the floor one day last week to discuss statehood for Alaska and Hawaii. "I am somewhat reluctant," the senior Senator from Kansas began, ". . . to talk about matters that question or might impugn the loyalty of certain officials . . ." Then, quickly overcoming his reluctance, plodding, 55-year-old Republican Andy Schoeppel proceeded for the next two hours to impugn the loyalty of Secretary of Interior Oscar Chapman...
...given the names of our accusers, so I cannot tell whether they took part in the labor of counting the ballots. I take leave to doubt it, however. Theirs is not to do the work, theirs is but to sit back, criticize, and underhandedly impugn the honesty of those who do--all under the cover of anonymity. I trust the Harvard student body is adult enough to treat this form of irresponsible and cowardly characer assassination with the contempt it deserves. Frederic D. Houghteling...