Word: slanderous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Owen Lattimore, the Johns Hopkins professor who powerfully influenced U.S. thinking and U.S. policy on China, finally reached the courts last week. In the three years since Senator Joseph McCarthy called Lattimore a "top Russian agent," the professor has 1) written a book in his own defense, Ordeal by Slander, that won applause from liberals; 2) appeared before one group of Senate investigators (the Tydings committee) whose majority cleared him handsomely; and 3) argued before another Senate hearing (Internal Security subcommittee) which denounced him as a "conscious, articulate instrument of Soviet conspiracy" and urged that he be brought to trial...
...where Democrats fear the Communist issue may cost them Catholic votes, Stevenson declared that the Republicans had done little to combat Communism either abroad or in the U.S. Said he: "Men who seek to fight [Communism] by indiscriminate accusation of their fellow citizens-by spreading suspicion and smear and slander-are serving no one but the Communists themselves ... In fighting Communism at home, I shall rely on such experienced guardians of our security as J. Edgar Hoover of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and General Bedell Smith of the Central Intelligence Agency. These men fight Communism as it must...
...endorsed ... a reign of terror by slander . . . the indiscriminate slaughter of the good name of one's opponents as a method of political warfare . . . His great crusade . . . like Cromwell's crusade, is ending up in the butchery of the reputations of innocent men & women...
...Democrats are dedicated to the cause of preserving and extending our traditional American freedoms. I am confident that the present infatuation of some Republican leaders with smear and slander is a passing phenomenon; but a lot of damage can be done in a little time. We want an America where the freedom of Harvard will be a model--not an exception, and certainly not a casualty. Adlai E. Stevenson Springfield, Illinois
...foot slogged along happily in the crowd's midst for half a mile. "What was it they promised if a Conservative government was elected?" he asked his fellow Tories. "War. Churchill the warmonger would plunge us into war. Well, it has not happened yet. That Socialist slander, which may have cost us 50 seats, is as dead as a doornail. Our opponents have got to think of another...