Word: slander
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...That's a slander and a falsehood!" roared Murray. "You're just reflecting your general conduct on the Senate floor...
...kept silent for two full days, then briefly attacked the speech for its "extremely aggressive tone." Three days later the Moscow radio picked up Churchill's charge that Russia had lowered "an iron curtain" across Europe, and retorted that U.S. and British "conservatives" were using "dirty methods of slander." The most significant comment of all came from a high-ranking Russian prosecutor at Nürnberg. After dutiful indignation that Churchill should have abused U.S. hospitality by such a speech, he continued...
Censorship is a necessary shield, wrote Baltisky, "in democratic countries, including Russia," against "all kinds of poisonous slander harmful to the cause of peace," and is justified "as long as influential newspapers or private owners" commit slander. Baltisky suggested a further extension: a world court to judge "internationally dangerous newspaper crimes" such as "a systematic urging toward war" and "political slander of any peace-loving state-that is, the spreading of knowingly false inventions...
Catholics, the article contends, rarely take note of Protestant doings. But among Protestant sects, "there is seldom a convention or a conference held . . . when they do not pass resolutions and, Moscow-like, deliver a blast at [Catholics]." The Catholic Church, through the centuries, has become accustomed to "misrepresentation and slander. . . . She remains unperturbed, attends to her own business quietly and all the while gains ground while Protestantism loses...
...Publisher Cissie Patterson, 61, who publishes the biggest but not the best paper in the capital, has had insanity on her mind recently. Last week she spread her thoughts across eight columns, under the heading CRAZY-CRAZY LIKE FOXES. They added up to some of the most vicious personal slander since the days when all journalism was yellow...