Word: smearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...breathe again. When someone looks as if he may try to interrupt, she may shut her dark blue eyes or stare him down, but she keeps going. Her accent has been described by her ex-husband as "half British and half pickaninny." She does not even stop talking to smear on fresh lipstick; the words sound like a gurgle, but out they come...
Although the proceedings were entirely legal, rednecked Parnell Thomas cried: "Vicious smear technique . . . cheap Pendergast politics...
Sophomore Dike Hyde made a strong, bid for the starting defensive right end in yesterday's workout--played under the lights--consistently breaking through interference to smear halfbacks trying to sweep his end. Other note worthy play against the Jayvees' Dartmouth offense was turned in by guards Emil Drvaric and Dick Guidera...
...help support this household, he must work with lightning speed, painting with swift, sure brush strokes on pieces of thin bamboo paper. The slightest error in wetting or pressing upon the brush would mean an ugly smear and having to start all over again. But Ch'ih Pai-shih never has to start over again, and he can turn out four or five of his delicate paintings a day. These he sells only on order, and only by the square foot (his price...
...slipped on many facts, and has carefully selected others. His statements that NSA's activities have been non-existent, and its policies completely in the grip of Catholic-controlled reactionaries are false. There is a vigorous Catholic bloc in NSA, and there have been unhappy examples of smear-scare techniques at their worst. But to damn NSA in such sweeping terms makes one wonder whether Mr. Marsh is not bitter over the failure of his own organization to do just what he charges the Catholic group with doing...