Word: smear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sensational yellow journalism which you circulated in an attempt to smear the Facts Forum program of Texan Hunt [TiME, Jan. 11] is itself proof of the inadequacy of TIME'S and Reporter Bagdikian's phony charges...
Until campaign's end, Nixon's enemies tried to smear him with new charges of bribery and corruption. None was even remotely proved, and one was based on forged evidence. When Ike and Nixon were elected, a favorite Democratic crack was: "The country can probably survive it as long as Ike lives out his term, but the thought of Nixon being one heartbeat from the Presidency is terrifying." Much of the anti-Nixon feeling stemmed, consciously or unconsciously, from the resentment of those who were wrong about Alger Hiss when Nixon was right...
...Better yet, doctors from Manhattan's Memorial Center demonstrated a promising and simple procedure for detecting lung cancers early. With a deep cough, the patient brings up sputum into a little bottle of jsopropyl alcohol. (He can take the bottle home overnight.) A Papanicolaou smear (TIME, Aug. 21, 1950) shows whether cancerous cells are present. Remote general practitioners can use the technique if they mail the bottle to a qualified laboratory...
...such a situation, partisanship colors one's viewpoint, but it's outrageously impudent for any attack to be made on a university without giving the whole story. We'll take our revenge by defeating Harvard in football next year, not by trying to smear her name...
...United States impugning the loyalty of an ex-President of the country, and thereby undermining the presumption of good faith upon which the two-party system rests. Neither Brownell's nor Eisenhower's belated recognition of Truman's loyalty can obscure these facts: Brownell's charge was a deliberate smear, leveled by the top political strategist of the Administration in order to win a Congressional election. Can such a man be trusted to put justice above politics in administering the office of Attorney-General...