Word: smear
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...beforehand that this delegation might be stacked with one political faction or another. It was relieving to find that there was a great diversity of opinion among us, but no hard division into cliques. In over-lasting tribute to our sanctity, not even the Hearst newspapers found cause to smear on the old familiar label. In fact, news coverage of the New York sessions was thorough and accurate...
Most Americans understandably view Russia with considerable fear and suspicion, and an already critical situation is worsened by TIME's habit of damning the land of the Soviets on all occasions. TIME annoys by its devotion to a nationalistic American Century and by its attempts to smear, with seeming objectivity, all liberal groups as Red, Commie or Pinko, a set of terms that was once the exclusive property of the Hearst press. Good Democrats wince when, as a "newsmagazine," it refers to Republican election victories in terms of solemn rejoicing for the country, and scoffs at or discounts Democratic triumphs...
...Reid Bronson, the ex-mother-in-law, retorted that Dilling had "lured" her daughter by "claiming he was heir to ... $100,000 . . . and would take her to ... a Swiss chalet." Mother Dilling managed to get into the act. Said she: "It's all a New Deal smear...
...from burned tissues, i.e., starvation; 2) infection, usually picked up when the burns are being dressed; 3) shock. The treatment casts aside not only elaborate ointments but the standard prewar practice of debriding (scraping away) the charred skin and flesh. Specialists now recognize that most preparations doctors used to smear on burns were either a hindrance or dangerous...
...friendship was more strained than at any time since German bombs began falling on London six years ago. Isolationists were licking their chops because, in the British loan debate, practical U.S. efforts toward world cooperation met their severest postwar challenge. The reason: an all-out Zionist campaign to smear Britain...