Word: slanderer
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...acquittal of Tom Coleman [Oct. 8] and the way it was accomplished is unbelievably cynical and disgusting. The trial was an open mockery of justice and a blatant display of malice and slander. If a community cannot do any better than this, it has forfeited the right to try such cases...
...newspaper called a Negro school principal an 'Uncle Tom' and a 'stoogo' last spring. He lost his job soon afterwards and sued for libel and slander damages," Howe explained. "But such a suit by a public official was clearly ruled out by the Supreme Court in New York Times v. Sullivan. The trouble with Ashland is that they say they don't know anything about the decision, don't like it and don't want to hear about...
Your attack is not one of reasoned argument, but of slander. It relies on the specific connotation of words rather than on facts. Granted that the May 2nd Movement has significant differences with SDS; yet Mr. Hessler characterizes what is an alternative approach to the same issues as being that of an "enemy" on the left. For this assertion he offers no justification...
...campaign, Stevenson insisted only upon trying to talk "sense to the American people" and avoiding what he called the "nauseous nonsense, the pie-in-the-sky appeals to cupidity and greed, the cynical trifling with passion and prejudice and fear, the slander, the fraudulent promises, and the all-things-to-all-men demagoguery." He didn't have much hope that he would win over Dwight Eisenhower. "You know," he said to a friend, "you really can't beat a household commodity-the catchup bottle on the kitchen table...
...Congressional Record!' " Dickinson hardly seemed to care that many people, North and South, viewed such stories with great suspicion. Although congressional speeches are privileged, he said that he would repeat last week's charges in the Montgomery Coliseum, which would automatically lift his protection against a slander suit. "If they're not true," said he, "then I'm willing to be branded irresponsible...