Word: smear
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TIME CORRESPONDENTS SEEM TO HAVE LEANED TOO HEAVILY ON REPORTS FROM THE GUTTER IN THEIR STORY ABOUT THE CROWN PRINCE MOHAMMED OF JORDAN. THE INTENSE SUBVERSIVE PROPAGANDA AND POLITICAL RIVALRIES IN THE AREA ARE TRYING IN VAIN TO FIND A BREAKTHROUGH TO SMEAR WITH FALSE RUMORS H. M. KING HUSSEIN AND HIS MOST BENEVOLENT AND SUCCESSFUL MONARCHY. THIS, I AM SORRY TO SAY, IS THE TRAP INTO WHICH YOUR REPORTERS HAVE BLINDLY FALLEN. I THINK IF THEY HAD INVESTIGATED MORE CAREFULLY THEY WOULD HAVE FOUND EMIR MOHAMMED IS AS RESPONSIBLE AND NO MORE ROWDY THAN AN AVERAGE 19-YEAR...
...right to put Scotty Reston on the cover (he has been my favorite columnist for years); it's all right to put polka dots on his necktie; but it's all wrong to smear them on his face and make him look as if he has leprosy...
...smear and slander, vilify, attack, For of guts and spirit I sure have...
...Last fortnight the word leaked out that George Belknap, the Democratic National Committee's director of voter analysis, had issued a secret party warning against "reckless schemes which could make Nixon a martyr and our campaign a smear ... A frontal attack on Nixon's character . . . would almost certainly lose votes...
...wise chief keeps a supply stuffed in a hidden lenaka, the hollowed horn of an antelope or ram, to smear on himself or members of his family when good fortune is most needed. Among the 650,000 Basuto, he who holds the lenaka holds power. Everyone agrees that no one has had more powerful medicine than Mantsebo Amelia Seeiso, Basutoland's portly, domineering Paramount Chieftainess...