Word: slanderous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...real concern is the particular ratchet toward which the slander has been directed. This is no ordinary ratchet, but rather the new, carefully selected, exquisitely sensitive, four-pronged, concert ratchet, lent to Mr. Avshalomov by the Harvard University Band. This honorable and delicate instrument may be cranked at angular velocities up to eight pi radians per second. The timbre may be changed by altering the sense of rotation. The possible effects of the ratchet range from single thwacks to pulsating rolls and evenly sustained buzzing. Such awesome versatility is hardly common to "a dilapidated Fourth-of-July noisemaker...
Harsh words trailed the Red Guards, who for seven months had enjoyed their own license to slander everyone in sight. Though it once cheered them on, the authoritative Maoist journal Red Flag now accused the young revolutionaries of having "begun to rest content with their past achievements" and to "chase after motorcycles, telephones and bicycles and seek a higher standard of living." They had erred also, said Red Flag, in attacking party cadres and thinking that the Cultural Revolution consisted only of "dismissing people from office," with the result that there was "no leader in a herd of dragons...
Said Chou: "Not all Red Guard activities are necessarily just and proper." He ought to know. He himself was once the victim of wall poster slander...
...countries around the Asian periphery. Communist North Korea had been carefully suppressing the news from China, lest its own youth catch the Red Guard fever. But last week it lashed out against Red Guard posters that reported a plot to overthrow the North Korean government. Cried Pyongyang: "An intolerable slander." Japan is disillusioned about its recent new moves toward Red China and fretful about its carefully cultivated and growing trade with the Chinese. Pakistan, which has beea edging toward friendship with Peking, now finds itself peering un- comfortably into an abyss. Most of all, China's travail tears...
...adage, "He who has a Hungarian for a friend does not need an enemy," may well be a national slander, but it proves true enough in the case of János Rakóssy, the tough, devious hero of this historical novel. The Hungarians were latecomers to Western Europe, drifting in from southern Russia in the 9th century, and they were so often friendless that it is a wonder they lasted at all. Rakóssy is set in one of the worst times of trouble for the Magyars-when Suleyman the Magnificent and his Turkish Janissaries swept...