Word: smearing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rose also suggested that a defense is to smear Vaseline on uncovered skin, a tactic used by Columbia University rioters among others. The manufacturers hold that Vaseline traps the droplets of Mace and so is a hindrance rather than a help...
...Over the next 48 hours, other students accepted the invitation and seized three more campus buildings. By this time, the sit-ins had taken on an air of well-oiled organization. From inside the barricaded buildings, the insurgents sent out emissaries to bring back food, blankets and Vaseline-to smear on their faces on the theory that it deadened the effects of the chemical Mace. Suddenly image-conscious, they began tidying up their own disorder, even emptying wastebaskets. A coordinated command post was set up, mimeograph machines churned out bulletins and manifestos. The Negro group in Hamilton Hall issued...
...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...