Word: smear
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Chandra Levy was - I mean, is- not a child, but a 24-year-old woman: her parents' child in any case. They must bear the added mystery of her relationship (whatever that was) with the Congressman - a smear of prurient Washington intern-scandal. Evil, which can be so crummy and ordinary, always enjoys a tabloid touch. If it were not for the business about the Congressman, Gary Condit of California - made more titillating by his evasiveness - Chandra would have disappeared from the newspapers almost as abruptly as she vanished from her Washington apartment...
...Beat to a frothy paste and smear...
...week's Outback Internet Caf? was bad enough as an Apple ad and a Hallmark prize, but at least it was mercifully short. Some tears, a marriage proposal, a couple of smiley faces and it was over. This time, Colby's mama didn't just come for dinner, and smear a little mascara over how thin he'd gotten. She stayed over. She came back and hugged everybody back at the camp. Everybody back at the camp cried...
...Horowitz said the current climate for debate about race was akin to "racial McCarthyism," where politically incorrect views were met with smear tactics and other attempts to suppress debate rather than foster open discussion...
...CHARGED. MOHAMAD EZAM MOHAMAD NOR, 34, youth leader of the Malaysian opposition National Justice Party, with sedition over his reported call in a newspaper interview for mass protests to topple the government; in Kuala Lumpur. Mohamad Ezam accused the government of using smear tactics against him and said that he was misquoted by the Mingguan Malaysia newspaper, to which he had spoken only of peaceful planned protests...