Word: slanderous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...liberties. Always articulate in his opinions, Black has become the acknowledged leader of the Supreme Court's liberal bloc. The Bill of Rights is Black's bible-and he takes it as literally as the Biblical fundamentalists. Thus, he recently argued (off the bench) that libel and slander laws are an infringement on freedom of the press and of speech as guaranteed by the Constitution...
...might aid the enemy -Congress enacted no laws at all directly abridging the citizen's right to speak and print whatever he chose. But no one proposed that the Bill of Rights, which was attached to the Constitution in 1791. nullified the more venerable laws governing libel and slander, which were part of the nation's inheritance from England. Time and again, the U.S. Supreme Court has sustained the view that an individual's right to speak and print freely must give way to the Government's right of self-preservation and to the individual...
...temporarily resolved liberal doubts about Russia on the simple ground that anyone who fought fascists must somehow be good), the Moscow trials (which rent the united front and so outraged Veteran Revolutionary Max Eastman that the comrades accused him of accepting $25,000 from the British Secret Service to slander Russia), right up to the great awakening -the Hitler-Stalin pact of 1939. The great love affair was over. Extreme cruelty has been charged by both parties...
...kind of blasts they ordinarily reserve for the West. Radio Moscow accused Albania of mass arrests and purges in which a pregnant woman Communist leader opposed to Dictator Enver Hoxha was executed. Hoxha, in turn, accused Khrushchev of "hideous activities," including the use of such "poisoned weapons as slander and brutal interference in our internal affairs...
...sober married man (Raymond Pellegrin), but the other is a charming gio-vanotto (Jean Sorel) who soon falls in love with the niece. Disturbed, the stevedore at first makes fun of the newcomer, but the niece falls in love with the boy anyway. Desperate, the stevedore resorts to slander: "He marry you he gotta da right be American citizen." Indignantly, the girl decides to marry the boy. At that the stevedore's obsession, like an elephant in musth, snaps the fraying tether of human feeling that restrains his frenzy. He betrays the boy and his brother to the immigration...