Word: smear
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...uterus used to be the most common site of fatal cancer in women. Today, thanks mainly to early detection with the Papanicolaou smear, it is far less deadly. "With 44,000 new cases expected next year, there will be an estimated 14,000 deaths. The A.C.S. believes that an annual "Pap" smear test for all 58 million women...
...TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). A fascinating look at the smear campaigns of past presidential elections-the rumors that George Washington was a woman, Abraham Lincoln a Negro-and the successful use of slander in destroying many a political career...
...life that practitioners of medicine, entrusted with the job of ministering to our mentally ill, should allow themselves to be a pawn in the cheap journalistic efforts of Ralph Ginsburg [Oct. 9]. That professional men of such stature should be taken in by such an obvious political smear is indicative of the days in which we are living-days of compromise and diluting of principles, days when sin is labeled as "error," when morality is relative and when materialism emphasizes the values of expediency and the shirking of responsibility. God help us to choose wisely...
...other words, Compulsory Miseducation contends that American education is living some kind of lie, that the king has no clothes. Goodman wants to begin by junking the whole thing. But this is obviously impractical. And the term "school monk" is a pretty stupid smear. Education has some good men, even some great men. All of them "school monks in an Organized System"? Hardly...
...days before the convention, there was a real smear. In a report from Germany, CBS's Daniel Schorr clearly implied that Goldwater would, on his planned (and now canceled) post-convention trip to Berchtesgaden, seek a liaison between U.S. conservatives and German "right-wing elements"-which, in the U.S., smacks of Naziism. Barry hit the ceiling, sputtered that the report was "nothing but-and I won't swear, but you know what I'm thinking-a dad-burned dirty lie." For a while he barred CBS cameras from his convention headquarters...