Word: smear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...professional Benson foe, got new headlines by demanding the Secretary's resignation. One of the few members of Congress to come to Benson's defense was Vermont's George Aiken, chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, who said Benson was the victim of a "vicious smear campaign...
Being practical types, they decide not to bury him under the sidewalk ("Aw-ya gotta kill him first"), but to finesse his extinction. One of the boys gets his father's rifle, lets Joey pull the trigger. Older brother Lennie falls down groaning, with a sinister smear of ketchup spreading on his chest. The others shout, "He's dead! You killed your brother, Joey!" Terrified. Joey runs home. No mother. Desperate, he grabs the $6 she left for them, and, hugging his trusty six-shooter, takes it on a lonesome lam that leads...
...Congressmen and others that U.S. school and college faculties are riddled with Communists. But last week, speaking to the Atlantic City assembly of the United Church Women he cautioned his colleagues not to dismiss every accusation as wild, sweeping and groundless. This, he said, is to use the same "smear" tactics they condemn in their enemies...
...shocking proposition put forward by you that the price for the reforms brought about by the merit system "is too high" cannot be supported by the facts. The statement that "no civil service ever cooperates efficiently with a Government dedicated to cutting expenses" not only is a gratuitous smear of tens of thousands of loyal, devoted American citizens in the federal service, but also is factually wide of the mark. Moreover, Congress controls the purse strings. The Administration at the top policy level recommends a budget based upon its policies and services rendered to the people...
Last week's picket line was composed solely of Guild members, predominantly female. Instead of a clout on the head, nonstrikers who braved the line (including Beck's Teamsters) were threatened by women strikers with a lipstick smear on the collar. When Times executives arrived for work, the picket lines parted, polite greetings were exchanged on both sides. Said Assistant City Editor Don Brazier (whose father is the paper's editor) as he walked the picket line: "Nobody is mad at the Times, yet we are determined to win the increase we know we have coming...