Word: smeared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...University's financial experts have had to ? down a number of complaints-some of them ? -in defending Harvard's $15 million Mid? South investments; it is hardly surprising that ? of them called the recent set of article "a one ? smear attack." But it is also significant that the objection was not to the accuracy of the Federal reports. but rather to their presentation "without proper explanation...
Leaving aside the question of whether or not admirtedly-accurate charts can constitute a "one sided smear attack," the objection hits an important point. Of all the possible danger spots lurking in sociological statisties, civil rights statistics ? probably the most treacherous. Dependin???? sentation, a set of "black percentag? that occupation can be made to mean ???? thing. And so ???? ??? critics must ? a closer ? the hiring tharts before coming to any con?sions...
Photographers get very upset when demonstrators try to block their cameras and smear Vaseline on their lenses(a neat trick used at M. I. T.), since the photographers say they are merely exercising their famous freedom of the press. The demonstrators say that they are exercising their freedom to keep out of FBI files...
...virtually everyone still alive who could have knowledge of the death, the author has reconstructed certain essentials. There was extreme disorder in both Masaryk's bedroom and bathroom-pillows on the bathroom floor and in the dry tub, glass bottles from the medicine chest ground under foot, a smear of excrement on the sill. Strangely, Masaryk had gone out the bathroom window even though it was much smaller than the one in the bedroom and very awkward to reach...
...student groups, however, were divided in their tactics. The Columbia Ecology Action Collective vigorously attacked speakers' personal backgrounds as well as their symposium statements. "They came in cold and used a lot of smear tactics," commented one moderate student leader. "We like to think we did our homework and tried to argue on their [the scientists'] terms," he said...