Word: slander
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...willingly labor a lifetime. Even a rogue may cherish the mistaken notion that he enjoys the respect of his community. As Shakespeare's foulest villain, Iago, puts it in Othello, "Good name in man and woman is the immediate jewel of their souls." That is why the concepts of slander and libel, and of the right of the aggrieved to seek redress for defamation, were introduced into English common law during the Middle Ages and why those ideas survive in U.S. law today...
...studied both with ambition." When Tillman's mother dies, of no visible cause, in her hotel room, petty annoyances assume the dimensions of conspiracy. The black authorities seem determined to find evidence of foul play. The hotel bartender, who hates whites in general and Tillman especially, feels free to slander the dead woman: "Daht ol boney-bag he call his muddah grabbin aht every blahck boy on de beach." As bad feelings spread and red tape unreels, the proprietor must store his mother's body in the kitchen freezer, prompting a walkout by the staff...
...defensively. Said she, struggling to fight back tears: "Because I can face myself and in all conscience say that whatever I have placed in my report is what I believe in, I could hardly care whether you people who are booing out there should pelt me with tomatoes or slander me. If my best does not satisfy you, I am sorry...
...origins of the universe that was ostensibly written by the Nobel laureate. Both actions were evidently designed to palliate Western concern over the fate of Sakharov and his wife Yelena Bonner, 61, who was sentenced last month to five years of internal exile on charges of spreading anti-Soviet slander. Dissident forces reported that Bonner was preparing an appeal...
Increasingly angered by the dissident activities of Andrei Sakharov over the past two decades, Soviet authorities last week moved to exact another bit of vengeance. A court reportedly sentenced Sakharov's wife Yelena Bonner, 61, to five years of internal exile for anti-Soviet slander. For Sakharov, 63, the blow was worsened by the prospect that Bonner may not survive the hardships of banishment. She has already suffered several heart attacks. When she was visited by a close family friend early this year, her lips and fingernails had turned blue and she was taking several dozen nitroglycerin tablets...