Word: slanderous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...despicable 'back street' type of campaign" which helped elect Baltimore Republican John Marshall Butler, unhorsed Maryland's Democratic Senator Millard Tydings. There wasn't enough legal evidence to warrant kicking Butler out of the Senate, said the committee, but in the future such "defamation, slander and libel" by a candidate's agents should be made reason enough. Joe McCarthy had been "actively interested" in the Butler campaign and the subcommittee thought a "sitting Senator" involved in another's campaign shenanigans should be made just as liable. The subcommittee's report was unanimous, signed...
Professor Owen Lattimore retired from his battles with Joe McCarthy last summer with his guns still smoking. His parting shot was a pamphleteering book entitled Ordeal by Slander. In it, he pictured himself as a simple scholar who was all but martyred by McCarthy's overblown charges that Lattimore was "the architect" of U.S. Far Eastern policy and a "top Russian espionage agent." Lattimore's last chapter warned that McCarthyism was undermining U.S. scholarship and morals...
...close. Harry Truman took the opportunity of letting his critics know what he thought of them. Burden of his speech: everything the Administration has done in Asia was just exactly right; people who disagree are at least misguided, and those that aren't are just spreading "fear, slander and lies...
With remarkable speed, the Bonn government cracked down on the Neo-Nazi Socialist Reich Party (TIME, May 21). A West German court last week found its führer, rabble-rousing Otto Ernst Remer, guilty of slander; during last winter's election campaign, Remer had accused Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's administration of subservience to the Western democracies ("Adenauer [is] nothing but a receiving station for allied orders"). Sentence: four months in jail...
Many ministers and laymen apparently assume that the Freudians are in favor of sexual promiscuity, but "this assumption is false, and its reiteration is a lie, a slander, a canard, and a misrepresentation of facts . . . Psychoanalysts do not favor promiscuity, do not encourage it, do not attempt to relieve any patient's guilt about it, and, in short, are no more to be considered immoral inciters to crime than anyone else who is doing his best to diminish the errors of mankind. Quite the reverse, most of them spend hours and hours attempting to relieve patients from the compulsive...