Word: smear
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Robert Belleh, chairman of Berkeley's sociology department, labeled the charges "nothing but a smear," adding that casting an academic department as terrorist without specifically naming anyone is "sounding off with nonsense...
...still dark when the retinue sets off for a day's campaigning. The heat, brilliant and soaking, comes soon after first light. On the edge of a town, the caravan shudders to a stop. The candidates pile onto the flatbed back of a pickup truck, smear on dabs of melting suntan cream and flip the switch of a cassette player. To the scratchy strains of martial music, they start downhill, making a short tour and ending up under the spreading roots of the giant ceiba trees, planted to provide a parasol of shade over the baking town square...
Meanwhile, the Marcoses mounted a smear campaign against the Manotoc family in the government-controlled press. Dailies ran a story in which Mrs. Marcos accused Manotoc of inveigling Imee into marriage and describing her daughter as having "the mind of a 40-year-old but the heart of a ten-year...
...featuring McCarthy. Dredging up every sort of reporting on the Senator, showing the media's role change from Joseph McCarthy's mouthpiece to that of a dramatic image-maker which cast McCarthy as a villainous "bully" with "heavy dark brows" or as a heroic cow-boy who fought "smear gangs" and "parlor pinks," the book vividly illustrates McCarthy's ride on the tracks of America's media, lying and venomously spewing forth accusations...
...Angel Live is the title of this doomed show. Jaclyn Smith is pursuing a villain who has robbed a client of $200,000, but when she tries to question him, he shoots her. Right in the head. Screams. A smear of blood beside the right ear. So they rush her to the hospital, and there, as one of the studio memos puts it, "the other Angels and Bosley reminist [sic] about their experiences...