Word: slanders
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...being that North Korea was a sovereign nation, and that the U.N. had no right to interfere in its internal affairs). Now Red China's Hsieh Fang was saying that the U.N.'s charge that his side intended to build and repair airfields was a "misrepresentation and slander...
...couch whereon she had been carelessly thrown . . ." He could ride and shoot like a Cody or a Hickock. When he was not dead drunk, he could spout a temperance speech that would awaken the remorse of the most sodden toper. When he was not in jail for fraud, slander, bigamy, libel or inciting to riot, he wrung women's hearts with his impassioned campaigns for purity. This was a sore point among his mistresses and his wives; he married at least six, in various cities, and sometimes had as many as three wives at once...
...protest Hollywood's attempt to portray itself as merely a reproduction of "Main Street anywhere." This, if nothing else, should incur the mass uprising of every Main Street everywhere to press charges of slander against the most powerful nest of veneer-covered, mental-garbage-disposal-dump ever invented by mankind...
...Dishonesty, slander, detraction and defamation of character are as truly transgressions of God's commandments when resorted to by men in political life as they are for all other men . . . One and the same standard covers stealing from the cash register and dishonest gain derived from public office. It will not do to say . . . that the latter can be excused or condoned because it occurs in the political order. One and the same standard prohibits false statements about private individuals and false statements about members of minority groups and races. It will not do ... to say that [they...
...asked the publisher of Webster's New International Dictionary to change its definition of the word "journalistic." Webster's definition: "characteristic of journalism or journalists; hence, of style, characterized by evidences of haste, superficiality of thought, inaccuracies of detail, colloquialisms and sensationalism." Cried Sigma Delta Chi: "A slander." Replied Dr. Everett Thompson, an editor of the dictionary: "We can't help" what people call journalists...