Word: slanderous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Being aware of the methods of struggle employed by the Soviet rulers against political opponents, I fully expect that they will now be used against me-the methods of slander, provocation, and possibly worse...
...Whatever Pravda meant with its "rumor from Cairo," the consequences of publication and later broadcast were swift and frightening. The British Government presented its stern denial directly to the Soviet Government. The British press fired harsh words at Russia for the first time since Hitler turned east: lie, insult, slander. Nazi propaganda set to work to prove a fatal rift in the fabric of agreement supposedly woven at Teheran, raise again the specter of a Red Europe. Ordinary Russians, taught to believe their press implicitly, now wondered whether Britain was about to betray them. In the U.S. many a plain...
...steppes. Said Moscow to the Poles: 1) the Poles have rejected the Curzon Line; 2) the Poles forget that they have no diplomatic relations with the U.S.S.R., hence cannot negotiate; 3) the lack of relations is the fault of the Poles who joined the Germans in an anti-Soviet slander about the murder of Polish officers in Katyn Forest (TIME, April 26); 4) the present Polish Government clearly does not want to establish good relations with Russia. In effect, said Moscow to the U.S. and Great Britain: stay...
Mulish sterility is an old slander of this branch of the Equidae, based on a half-truth. The couplings of mule and mule are fruitless (the genetic grounds: incompatibility of chromosomes). But as in the case of Farmer Vermaak's sport, a mule mare now & then carries her own dam's chromosomes-and once in some 200,000 encounters meets the stallion that has her (germ-cell) number...
...passed for hard-pressed Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels to concoct his explanations, the German radio let out the big, bad news by quoting Allied announcements, adding: "Marshal Badoglio, in the meantime, confirmed the capitulation in a broadcast from Rome, although the King of Italy on Sept. 8 rejected as slander the suggestion that Italy was thinking of capitulation." Later reactions...