Word: slanderous
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Cave Dreamboat. A group of anthropologists had kind words to say for Neanderthal man, that extinct first cousin of modern humans, generally described as a dim-witted monster whose long arms dangled forward from stooping shoulders. This is slander, says Dr. William L. Straus Jr. of Johns Hopkins University. Neanderthal man probably stood upright with his limbs in seemly positions...
What a relief that Commander in Chief Eisenhower has annihilated Slander in Chief Stevenson...
...become U.S. ambassador to Italy, she walked into a nation in crisis. The Italian national elections were just coming up. Communists and monarchists were closing in from left and right on the teetering Christian Democratic government of Premier Alcide de Gasperi. The Communist daily L'Unita, eager to slander the U.S., hooted at her as a "comicopera ambassador." A rightist magazine hailed her arrival with a full-page cartoon of an American flag trimmed with lace. Last week when Clare Luce, 53, resigned as ambassador, it was perhaps the most meaningful tribute to her work that L'Unita...
...laws have bred a technique of trumpeting sensation with small regard to facts. The very inability to name a suspect emboldens editors to print gossip and rumor about what he may have done. Whether Eastbourne deaths prove the year's big crime story or an ugly case of slander, the British press will have shown that tough laws may result in puzzling readers, but are no proof against an orgy of sensationalism...
Late last week, protesting bitterly at "the campaign of vilification and slander against me." Ali resigned both the premiership and his membership in the Moslem League. Pakistan President Iskander Mirza, announcing that he wanted time to review the play up to that point, asked Ali to remain on the job temporarily. At week's end Mirza was still deep in review and looking for a ball carrier...