Word: slanderous
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...lives. He is a lifelong internationalist, a staunch supporter of the League of Nations and the U.N., has backed the Marshall Plan and the Truman Doctrine; but he sometimes speaks with an accent that isolationists applaud. He also strongly backs Senator McCarthy, but has condemned McCarthy's "indefensible" slander of General Marshall...
Then Thimayya disposed of another Red trick. The 22 U.S. and one British "nonrepat" P.W.s complained they were getting mail from the U.S. designed to "intimidate, slander, coerce and bribe" them to go home; they demanded that the neutrals censor their mail. Thimayya said all right, if the other neutrals agreed, but "I asked them what we should do in the case of a letter from a man's wife who writes 'Oh, darling, please come home to me,' and they seemed a little unclear...
...arrival for the coronation, but the Prime Minister, already bent over by the white man's burden, sagely paid it no mind. Back home in Johannesburg, however, his followers exploded. NEGRESS' SATIRICAL SONG ABOUT DR. MALAN! cried the Nationalist newspaper Die Transvaler. PALACE APPROVES IT; PRESS SLANDER FOLLOWS...
...truth, of course, there is no guilt. It borders on paranoia to liken Perini to Benedict Arnold because he didn't want to lose another half million dollars this year--and the next, most likely, and the year after that. It makes no more sense to slander the populace for failing to flock to watch a loser...
More than one U.S. educator felt he had good reason for fear. "You have today," said President Henry M. Wriston of Brown, "a bullying of the intellectuals of the United States which is intolerable . . . Whenever by slander, by innuendo, by rumor, investigators start to throw mud at the colleges, then every alumnus in every institution of the United States should rise up and say, this has got to stop...