Word: smearing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Denning insists that the lawsuits are part of a "smear campaign" led by funeral directors jealous of his low-cost, high-volume business (last year the Neptune Society accounted for almost one-quarter of all California cremations). "I'm taking money from undertakers' pockets and putting it in the pockets of the living," says Denning, whose white goatee, folksiness, and success have earned him the irreverent nickname "Colonel Cinders." For less than $400, Denning promises that ashes of the departed will be taken out to sea on an elegant yacht, then scattered across the Pacific under flags...
...third Monday of January, beginning in 1986, as a national holiday commemorating the birthday of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. The high moment could not, however, erase the memory of a squalid scene the day before. New Right Republican Jesse Helms of North Carolina had resurrected the old smear that King was a Communist sympathizer, setting off a shouting tumult in which other legislators broke Senate rules to impugn Helms' motives. Then, only hours after the Senate vote had seemingly put an end to the controversy, Ronald Reagan needlessly started it anew. At his Wednesday night news conference...
...ulcer had been acting up and no wonder. Poland's government had initiated another smear campaign against him. This time, the authorities said, he was under investigation for currency violations. Days before, the state-run television network had played a tape recording in which he could purportedly be heard discussing a $1 million foreign bank account and bemoaning the fact that he had been passed up for a Nobel Prize last year. To relieve the pressure, Lech Walesa, leader of the now banned Solidarity movement, went off with a group of friends one day last week to hunt...
...first one has now been resolved in Westmoreland's favor. It involved the question of whether an internal CBS study of the show, inspired by a TV Guide article last May calling the program "a smear," was protected by a business or journalistic privilege of confidentiality. The study was conducted by CBS News Senior Executive Producer Burton Benjamin and was summarized by CBS News President Van Gordon Sauter in a memorandum made public in July. Drawing on Benjamin's study, Sauter conceded that the program had deviated from certain CBS News practices, but stood by its substance...
Custodians of the Marx memorial were relieved that no fanatic felt driven to pry the philosopher's bearded bust off its granite pedestal, smear it with paint, or try to chisel off the nose, as had happened in the past. Throughout the day, Communist representatives from a number of countries trooped by the monument to lay bouquets of red carnations, tulips and daffodils. "Homage from the Chilean Trade Union Congress," read one card. Another floral tribute was presented "on behalf of the Marxist-Leninists in Bangladesh who cannot be here." Many residents of the city in which Marx spent...