Word: slanderer
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...NAACP's "shot-gun slander," he continues, "produced the predictable result--the local citizens began to turn their condemnation from the murder of the Negro boy to the NAACP." But in spite of the irritation it knew it would arouse in the South, the NAACP continued to stir up the public, feeling that they had nothing to fear, since the Negro's situation could not get worse. The jury would not bring an effective conviction, the group felt, and a national awareness of the case would at least put Mississippi justice on public record...
...important thing is that the state, the legally constituted authority, acted in all apparent good faith to see that justice was done, but that as soon as the crime was announced, the NAACP began a heated denunciation of the state and its political morality. This kind of shot-gun slander produced the predictable result--the local citizens began to turn their condemnation from the murder of a Negro boy to the NAACP. This reaction was so strong that the subsequent acquittal of Milam and Bryant in another trial for kidnapping, in which the state's case was much stronger, appears...
...actually turned back 800 feet from the summit. Chuckled Everest's Co-conqueror Hillary: "The man is making a bit of a goat of himself." In Calcutta last week, Author Goswami, deeply affronted, butted back at Sir Edmund with a 100,000 rupee ($20,000) libel and slander suit. Back home in New Zealand, where he is now planning an Antarctic expedition, part-time Beekeeper Hillary looked up from maps to chortle again: "I think it's a priceless joke. This chap will have to prove that Tenzing...
From the Socialists came yelps of "slander, insolence-pfui, pfui!" but Adenauer persisted: "Herr Ollenhauer apparently ignores the fact that there exists an East German army and that the East German youth is being prepared for civil war"; to follow Ollenhauer's policy of neutrality would be to lead "Germans to the slaughterhouse like so many sheep...
...Robert W. Blair of Hollywood, in which he advises Correspondent Brown (late of Sweden) to seek sweet surcease of sex in Philadelphia. Every red-blooded Philadelphian from the Navy Yard to Willow Grove, from Tinicum Creek to the Main Line (inclusive) will rise in protest against this foul slander ... Of course it's a well-known fact that things are different over in Camden...