Word: smearing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pressed the attack on pocketbook issues, letting his less chivalrous allies address issues like abortion. But their efforts began to backfire--one pamphlet accused the father of five of being a baby killer, enough to convince many South Dakotans that their senior Senator truly was the victim of a smear campaign controlled from beyond their borders...
...convicts in the H-blocks have long protested a 1976 ruling that reduced the status of new inmates from something akin to prisoners of war to that of ordinary criminals. The "dirty protesters," as they have been called, refuse to wash, wear blankets instead of inmates' garb and smear prison walls with excrement...
...Sunday morning about 1940 when the Carter family was getting ready for church, Jimmy, then a high school senior, tried to smear down three-year-old Billy's unruly blond hair with brilliantine. When Billy squirmed, Jimmy threw him faceup across his lap and shook the bottle above his mouth. The top fell off and the hair oil poured over Billy's face...
Because the malignant condition caused by DES cannot be detected by a PAP smear, the usual method of testing for cervical cancer, DES daughters require expensive examinations on a regular basis...
...them devoted entirely to the Birch publishing empire. In addition to a monthly Birch Society Bulletin, which 80-years-old Welch still writes, and a weekly reactionary news analysis magazine called The Review of the News, the society publishes hundreds of pamphlets like "McCarthy: The Truth, the Smear and the Lesson." and "They killed the President : Lee Harvey Oswald Wasn't Alone," (Surprise, he had help from Communists). The society also runs Western Island Press, publishers of conservative tracts like "Teddy Bare: The Last of the Kennedy Clan," an attack on the Senator's performance at Chappaquiddick. To complete...