Word: slanderous
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Simonov added a word about national policy in answer to a question about the chauvinism of the Russian press: "If I thought American press slander of the U.S.S.R. were typical of the United States, I should never have come to visit...
...part stating that I objected that he should not have batted so as to win one game because it might hurt the attendance for the following game is a vile slander. . . . My reputation for personal and moral integrity is far above such baseness...
...That's a slander and a falsehood!" roared Murray. "You're just reflecting your general conduct on the Senate floor...
...kept silent for two full days, then briefly attacked the speech for its "extremely aggressive tone." Three days later the Moscow radio picked up Churchill's charge that Russia had lowered "an iron curtain" across Europe, and retorted that U.S. and British "conservatives" were using "dirty methods of slander." The most significant comment of all came from a high-ranking Russian prosecutor at Nürnberg. After dutiful indignation that Churchill should have abused U.S. hospitality by such a speech, he continued...
Censorship is a necessary shield, wrote Baltisky, "in democratic countries, including Russia," against "all kinds of poisonous slander harmful to the cause of peace," and is justified "as long as influential newspapers or private owners" commit slander. Baltisky suggested a further extension: a world court to judge "internationally dangerous newspaper crimes" such as "a systematic urging toward war" and "political slander of any peace-loving state-that is, the spreading of knowingly false inventions...