Word: smear
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...legislators to conjure up subversive control of bills of their own such as the Maryland Ober Law and its pending Massachusetts imitation. Another is that administrators may use it to bludgeon criticism and unpopular beliefs into silence, thus resurrecting the witch-hunt of the '20's complete with its smear and arbitrary methods. And yet another implication is that this act and its effects may become permanent even after the present tide of pressure, passion, and fear has receded...
...date for March 28, 1945. Stypulkowski and 15 other members of the Polish underground government were invited to be Marshal Zhukov's guests, ostensibly to discuss future Polish-Russian relations and the security of the Red army then fighting in Poland. Actually, the Russians had laid plans to smear the Polish underground, stifle its "uncooperative" patriots, and set up their own puppet regime. Promptly on arrival, the 16 delegates were clapped into Lubianka to be "interrogated." The charge: that they had conspired with the Germans against the Red army and the Soviet Union. Neither drugs nor storybook tortures were...
...stay out until the trustees cleared up the whole controversy once & for all. Then the undergraduate weekly Sandspur put out a special anti-Wagner issue, accusing the president of distorting the facts about the college's financial crisis. Wagner denounced the issue as "filled with falsehoods ... a smear on my reputation." Unless the editors retracted, said he, he would suspend them...
Publication of Leviero's scoop brought Republican accusations that the Administration was underhandedly trying to smear MacArthur, and that it had set its Pentagon forces to studying MacArthur's 52-year military career in the hopes of finding something to tar him with...
...hearings become more ominous. A number of irresponsible Congressmen have capitalized on the publicity of such investigations in the past, and the new medium of TV has provided them with even greater vote-getting opportunities. The potentialities offered by a multi-million audience would be an irresistible temptation to smear experts of the McCarthy stripe...