Word: smear
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Distress & Tragedy. With the help of an echo chamber, 39-year-old Edwards gets an eerie, disembodied quality into his voice, but everything comes back to happy normality in time for the Hazel Bishop No-Smear Lipstick commercial. Last week Edwards addressed Lillian Roth as if he were a supernatural prosecutor: "Confusion, distress and tragedy walked by your side even as you rose to the top-and soon all glamour was stripped from you, as drink follows drink, and you sink into a stupor that was to last for 16 years. These are the years to come before...
...investigators had charged that the subcommittee was being unfair to McCarthy, and had resigned. The original chairman, Iowa Democrat Guy Gillette, had resigned in distress over other resignations. Senator McCarthy himself had stubbornly and slyly avoided testifying in his own defense. He contended that the investigation was just a "smear...
...McCarthy's reaction to the report was McCarthy-like: It was "a new low in dishonesty and smear." He had labels for the subcommittee members: the Democrats, Missouri's Senator Thomas C. Hennings Jr. and Arizona's Carl Hayden, were "lackeys" of Harry Truman; the Republican, New Jersey's Robert C. Hendrickson, was a "living miracle . . . without brains or guts...
...peace camp and the enslaved Arab nations." Israel prepared to protest, both in Prague through its ambassador there, and in the U.N. Even Israel's Al Hamishmar, newspaper of the slavishly pro-Cominform Mapam Party, suddenly disillusioned, called the accusations against Oren "fantastic and absurd," an attempt to smear "a persecuted people...
Last week the party expelled Guingouin, and, as usual, beat its victim to the smear. Said Communist L'Echo du Centre: ". . . For many years he [Guingouin] has been disposing of considerable sums, of indeterminate origin, under party control, which have been accumulated and hidden away in various secret places . . . The total of these clandestine deposits is many millions of francs." Although seven billion francs, seized in the train robbery, had been returned to the French government after liberation, a sum of three billion was still unaccounted...