Word: smear
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...election. I do not expect to ever have to make that decision, but I can assure you that my loyalty to my party would mean more to me than his did when he not only deserted the ticket in 1964, but was the chief architect of the lie and smear campaign waged against my friend, Barry Goldwater...
...teach patriotism and respect with such antics? King Lear . . . King Smear...
...three months, the newspaper had four reporters looking into rumors of shady dealings in the award of a $12 million construction contract for a world trade center at Los Angeles harbor. Yorty called the resulting exposé an attempt to smear him and asked for a grand-jury investigation. The grand jury obliged. Its verdict: a 15-count indictment charging perjury and bribery against four present and former commissioners, all appointed by Yorty...
...centuries, the nomadic Masai tribesmen have loped like lions across their vast grazing plains near Mount Kilimanjaro, wearing nothing much more confining than a breechcloth of calico. Even in recent years, the Masai have continued to carry spears, smear their bodies with a red ocher pigment, hang weighty baubles in their pendulous ear lobes and quaff their favorite brew of clotted steer's blood, curdled milk and cow urine. Now Tanzanian President Ju lius Nyerere has decided that it is time for the Masai to pick up some civilized habits. In a policy designed to stamp out "ancient, unhealthy...
...time Hatcher won the nomination for mayor, a crude frame-up would have been too obvious. Krupa tried the ideological tack. He labeled Hatcher a Black Power extremist and, as the smear spread, it widened to Communist. Krupa demanded that Hatcher repudiate Stokely Carmichael, Rap Brown, Joan Baez, Marlon Brando and sundry other so-called "pinkos" as proof of his patriotism. "I will never repudiate Marlon Brando," deadpanned Hatcher-though the subtlety was probably lost on most Garyites. For the rest. Hatcher would only say that he deplored "civil violence of any kind...