Word: smear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Theory. Over the season, opponents have been learning that the only way to stop the Browns is to stop both passing Quarterback Otto Graham and line-smashing Fullback Marion Motley. This is not simple. More often than they like to remember, defending linemen have sifted through to smear Passer Graham, found themselves mousetrapped behind the line of scrimmage while 235-lb. Fullback Motley crushed downfield with the ball...
Paternalism is a smear word. Harvard doesn't pat its students on the head, doesn't outfit their play pens, doesn't sit down with them for fatherly advice. But a Yale student might mix an incisive metaphor and say this; in trying to avoid paternalism, Harvard leans over backwards so far that it falls flat on its face...
They don't say the Golden Gophers are not getting good results. They don't have to say that. 50,000-plus people who watched the Ohio State team smear mud on the escutcheon Saturday know that. Anybody who listened to one of the five broadcasts of the game knows that...
Beer Deplores Red Smear Campaigns...
...victory of men who used "McCarthy techniques' could be the most disturbing result of this election," said Samuel H. Beer, associate professor of Government. "The red smear has appeared in the California, Illinois, Pennsylvania and even the Ohio and Maryland campaigns...