Word: libeler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hofmans (TIME, June 25). The magazine's most sensational exposé was a 1952 story charging that Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, whom it has bitterly opposed, had accepted favors from French secret service agents. Adenauer dropped defamation charges when the magazine announced publicly that it had not intended to libel him. But as a result of Der Spiegel's refusal to pay court costs, on grounds that to pay would constitute admission of error, the case is still rumbling on. Augstein-an influential member of the Free Democratic Party, which is more extreme than any other non-Communist party...
...plane had even been sighted in Ireland by taking a chance on printing and distributing 50,000 papers plastered with the photo of a grinning Lindy and the caption, WELL, I MADE IT. He "exposed" the Atlantic City beauty contest as a "frame-up." thereby pushing the total libel suits filed against the Graphic to $12 million. When the treasurer complained wistfully, Gauvreau cracked: "Take it out of my salary...
...TIME, Dec. 26). But though he can dish it out, Randolph Churchill, 45, last week showed he did not have to take it; he went to court to demand damages for libel from The People, mass-circulation (5,075,351) Sunday paper...
...even used the very expression "old hack" to describe Charles Eade, editor of the Sunday Dispatch (circ. 2,549,228)? Randolph freely admitted it, added: "So would you if you read the Sunday Dispatch. I suppose if Mr. Eade thought 'old hack' was a lie or a libel, he would have written...
...drug sales. But despite a spate of stories about the Case of the Eastbourne Deaths, many a reader stumbled bewildered through such a maze of hints, irrelevancies and non sequiturs that it was hard to figure out what the uproar was all about. Reason: the tough British laws of libel and contempt that forbid newspapers to identify a suspect or connect him with a crime in any way until the police have charged him, or to tell the story of a crime until the trial...