Word: slanderous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last week he chose for the first time to give any public explanation of "my side of the case." He rose in the House of Representatives, where he could say whatever he wished and, under the U.S. Constitution, be legally free and clear of any threat of libel or slander...
...deny responsibility, often take the victim to a different doctor after each successive beating. Since the infant can rarely speak for himself, the parental denial reinforces a doctor's natural hesitation to consider beating as the cause of injury. To make matters worse, doctors fear being sued for slander if they tip off the police and the charge turns out to be false...
...Never before have I heard such irrational, irresponsible, insulting and repugnant language in these chambers-and language used, if you please, contemptuously to impugn and slander a gallant and successful effort to save human lives of many nationalities and colors...
...TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). A fascinating look at the smear campaigns of past presidential elections-the rumors that George Washington was a woman, Abraham Lincoln a Negro-and the successful use of slander in destroying many a political career...
...allegation that the Labor economic program was a "menu without prices." Harold Wilson committed a gaffe of his own, charging a "Tory plot" behind a strike at the Hardy Spicer factories that threatens to idle Britain's whole automotive industry. He was promptly slapped with a slander suit by the Hardy Spicer management while Sir Alec chortled "panic...