Word: smear
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...Tribune, had sought for him, had squeaked through to victory in 1940 while the electorate's eyes were focused on the more important Roosevelt-Willkie campaign. In 17½ months in the Senate his only achievement had been membership on the hapless isolationist committee which had tried to smear the movie industry as "warmongers...
...radio critics, a "corps of watchmen" he hopes to see arise, he points out a few things to watch for. One is anything like a repetition of the smear campaign that used radio-advertising technique to defeat Upton Sinclair eight years ago in California. Another is the "tendency of some radio programs to spoon-feed the nation on intellectual mush almost entirely deficient in every vitamin necessary to a healthy populace capable of sustaining democracy...
Said he, with curled, pale lip: "My indictment is only an incident in the perfidious plot to smother and smear all opposition to the arbitrary forces cunningly at work to destroy the America we know and love...
...last ditch effort to smear Harvard's unblemished sprint-race record, the Varsity crews of Princeton, Syracuse, and Cornell will join forces tomorrow afternoon at 5:30 o'clock in the hopes that one of them will cover the mile and three-quarters course faster than Captain Sherm Gray's eight. The chances of the Crimson's being upset seem almost negligible, and the rangy Varsity seems headed for its first undefeated sprint season since Spike Chace captained...
This week the House Military Affairs Committee settled down to an investigation of the whole defense effort, promised to look hard for the Communist in the defense-pile. From the President came a warning: reports of Communist activities should not be used to smear labor. But the nation, growing anxious about its defense plants, was more concerned about agents of foreign powers smearing...