Word: smear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...N.B.C. organized 18 months ago, attacked the accusation as a "vicious and malicious falsehood," and denounced the "smear" campaign which the A.B.C. has been conducting...
From New Mexico, McCarthy resorted to jeering. "I wouldn't take the time to answer Connecticut's odd little mental midget who is used as a megaphone for the Communist party-line type of smear." Instead, he orated for more than an hour to the assembled Republicans. Many of them had opposed inviting him. But after hearing Joe reiterate his familiar charges and watching him flourish "documentation," the delegates stood and cheered. At meeting's end, the 17 state chairmen unanimously and formally pledged McCarthy their support as Joe hustled off for more speechifying at the annual...
Condon advised all persons in or out of the Government not to be "buffaloed into giving up" if they find themselves targets of "smear attacks" on their loyalty. "Get a good lawyer and fight. That is the only way we are going to stop these nonsensical excesses." But even the bouts with "riffraff in Congress," he added, have their compensations. "When you are subject to a public attack, as I was, people rally around you, and you find you have friends you never knew about...
Tongue-Tied. In Carlsbad, N. Mex., the sheriff's office intercepted a letter which advised two prisoners charged with passing a phony check: "Smear your face with rosewater, roots and salt. Then cut open a beef tongue and write the names of opposition witnesses inside and bury it, and no judge will dare to convict...
...There is evidence that some persons and groups in authority in our government are unable to tolerate criticism. This is manifested by the smear tactics and propaganda techniques now being used to silence any critics...