Word: slander
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...arms and led me to a small van like a Black Maria. They drove me to an office where a man in civilian clothes introduced himself as a senior counselor of justice, Gennadi Kolesnikov. He charged me with violating Article 190-1 of the criminal code, which deals with "slander of the Soviet state or social system" and can lead to up to three years in a labor camp. In the next room, two women in Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) uniforms did a body search and looked through my bag. They took copies of the letters that were supposed...
...member of the True Orthodox Church, had spent almost her entire life in camps. I referred to her "tragic fate." While I was not speaking of just or unjust sentencing or anything else about the verdicts, I did use the word tragic. This was said to be a "slander" because Semyonova had been correctly sentenced...
...Addressing a cheering crowd of thousands at his final rally, Waldheim asserted, "I have done my duty as a good soldier like all of you," and asked whether his listeners would allow the generation of their grandfathers "to be slighted by an infamous campaign of pure slander...
...fact, I am just as free to insult, ridicule and slander as in past columns. It's a privilege I've abused in the past--believe it or not--and one that I undoubtedly will abuse again...
...worn to the 1965 K.B.L. nominating convention at which the stage was set for his first successful presidential bid. After the cheers of "Marcos still!" had quieted, the President stepped to the microphone and launched into a sonorous denunciation of the opposition. He accused his political foes of slander, corruption, godlessness and collusion with "leftist killers...