Word: slurs
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...slur upon a horse-loving people," cried an outraged letter writer in the London Times. In the House of Commons, a Tory and two Laborites joined forces to present a motion condemning the "cruelty of the Grand National." Animal lovers of the National Equine Defense League and the Society for the Modification of Steeplechasing and Grand National Reform closed ranks with their fellows in the League Against Cruel Sports to bring an action against the Aintree race promoters under the Protection of Animals...
There is a nasty little slur on the theatre and popular taste playing at the Wilbur. Called twin Beds, it is dedicated to the Proposition that people of limited theatre-going experience will enjoy smutty leers and painfully-stressed innuendoes. The audience, seduced by a flood of "complimentary" tickets offering admission at half price, is mainly composed of giggling secretaries and their beaux in tic-less sport shirts: all alive to the glamour of a theatre first night...
...softie. The crowd, many of them from Willie's home town of Hartford, Conn., booed and jeered the champ, cracked that Willie had given far less than his all. New York Boxing Commissioner Robert Christenberry had no patience with such speculation: "Any evil talk is a slur on a once-great fighter who took the beating of his life. The result speaks for itself. This is the end of an era. You can't hold back youth." The boxing commission's doctor, Vincent Nardiello, wrote a finis to Willie's career: "His reflexes are gone...
...while a member of the Communist party. Many headlines mentioned McCarthy either with or without naming the witnesses. All mentioned either Furry's and Kamin's admission of communist activities, or their refusal to give names of Communists they knew, or both. Some newspapers, incidentally, took the opportunity to slur M.I.T. rather than the University because Furry worked on the radar project at that institution rather than here...
P.W.s last summer. At this, the American remarked: "What utter nonsense! What utter garbage! How silly can you get?" And when the Reds repeated the slur, the Wall Street lawyer replied in his best courtroom style: "Your charge is untrue. I therefore treat it as a notification that you want these talks recessed indefinitely...