Word: libelous
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...causes and regularly attacks U.S. foreign policy. In a strident article in 1962, the Review accused Pauling of "acting as megaphone for Soviet policy" and lending his "name, energy, voice and pen to one after another Soviet-serving enterprise." A second Review article took note of the number of libel suits brought by Pauling and derided the "brazen attempts at intimidation of the free press by one of the nation's leading fellow travelers...
Krassner, who told his audience he was "still recuperating from the haircut" he underwent to appear in court during a recent libel suit, spared little...
...QUIT STALLING, BRING HIM IN; Bailey contended, was that Cleveland Press Editor Louis Seltzer (who recently retired) thought that only his paper could prevent a cover-up of the murder. Once the trial began, Bailey argued, Seltzer pressed for a conviction so that his paper would be protected against libel suits...
From time to time, he glances with a confused expression around the court room. The prosecutor and chairman read the proofs of his libel, indignant...
...perjury charge stemmed from one of his libel trials, and Wirges had little doubt that he would be convicted. The members of the jury, which included an illiterate and a man whose son is soon to stand trial for murder in the same court, were all well-known to the sheriff. Even before the verdict, Wirges' friends, including the defeated Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Winthrop Rockefeller, were busily getting ready to finance an appeal...