Word: slandered
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...insurance adjuster in Norfolk, Va., was fired by his company because he allegedly referred claimants to certain attorneys. The insurance company informed the local credit bureau of his dismissal, whereupon the adjuster sued for slander and collected a $1,000 judgment. Because he sued, even though he won, he has since been classified as a "dangerous" credit risk, on the ground that he is "litigious." He has been unable to find employment, except as a $2-an-hour security guard...
...their lifetime many writers have been exposed, in the press and from the platform, to insults and slander without having any opportunity to reply. What is more, they have been exposed to violence and physical persecution. The board of the Writers' Union in cowardly fashion abandoned to their misfortune those whom persecution finally condemned to exile, to the concentration camp, to death. After the 20th Party Congress (1956) we learned that there were more than 600 writers who were guilty of no crime and whom the union obediently left to their fate in the prisons and the camps...
...enjoying a fresh outpouring of honor and homage in the wave of current reform, and Czechoslovakia's press reacted angrily to the Soviet charge. "An insult without parallel," said the newspaper Práce. Lidová Demokracie called the story "a gross falsification of our history" and "slander...
...coalition government that included the Viet Cong. Ky was particularly upset by U.S. criticism of the performance of the South's government and army. Speaking in Dalat, he lashed out at "those colonialists who think that by giving us a small quantity of material support that they can slander us. No one, be he named...
...delegates from 67 countries had hardly been called to order in the Hotel Gellert's ornate dining room when Mikhail Suslov, head of the Russian delegation and the Kremlin's chief ideologue, broke the first promise by launching a bitter attack on Mao Tse-tung's "slander campaign" against the conference. It also became quickly apparent that Moscow had already decided on the time and the place-November or December in Moscow-for a full-dress Communist summit meeting, and expected only a dutiful seconding from the Budapest assembly. As if all this did not disturb...