Word: slander
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Faction's Fight. There were times during the week when a unified France seemed impossible. Slander and counter-slander muddied the Algiers atmosphere. The mudslinging began even as General de Gaulle arrived (TIME, June 7) to receive a correct but unenthusiastic welcome from General Giraud and Minister Murphy, an ovation from the people. To the cheers, the Fighting French leader responded by raising his arms in a V sign. Anti-De Gaullists sneered that such a gesture hardly differed from a Hitler salute...
...fidelity. They were truly angels of mercy-dirty, underfed, overworked but always cheerful. They deserve individual medals for their heroism and devotion to duty, rather than to be depicted as they are in the play you reviewed and the play should return to its former "setting" and cease its slander of the wonderful nurses of Bataan...
Cineproducer Pare Lorentz (The River, The Plow That Broke the Plains) sued RKO for $1,619,147 damages for slander and breach of contract. RKO stopped production last July on his Name, Age and Occupation (25-year odyssey of a "composite American...
...high as 140,000 and pay the heavy upkeep on Editor Enrique P. Osés, whose salary was $1,500 a month, plus fat expenses covering such items as an eight-man bodyguard. Additional expenses were incurred through Pampero's 58 suits for libel, calumny, contempt, slander, vilification, defamation, extortion, and once for repairs to Pampero's offices after a fed-up crowd had wrecked them...
...Slander, unadulterated slander," was the tone of all the aggrieved swamis who called. Although they admitted Friedkin might be a fake, they one and all maintained that they themselves are representatives of an ancient and honorable art, "the world's oldest legitimate science...