Word: smearing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...victims of a smear campaign," Mrs. Sullivan said. "It's unfair that my daughter has become the recipient of a slanderous and unfair campaign at the hands of Councillor David Sullivan...
...Austrian Foreign Ministry after the war but insists that he is not a close friend, said he undertook the mission for Austria's sake. Accompanied by Ralph Scheide, a Waldheim aide and co- author of the white paper, Molden called the Austrian President the victim of a smear campaign. "If you pour two gallons of manure over somebody, he will smell," Molden said, "and then you can say that he stinks." Scheide argued that the case against Waldheim has dwindled to charges that he knew of Nazi atrocities. "Of course he knew," Scheide conceded. "So did everyone else." Such arguments...
...accusation of treason. The nation had to undergo a prolonged and squalid crisis until journalists learned to check out irresponsible charges and give the accused a chance to reply. Spiro Agnew was a nonentity as Vice President until the beleaguered Richard Nixon decided to deploy Agnew to wage a smear campaign against network news bias. Fearful of Government intervention, television gave him more attention than he deserved. Agnew's hour in the spotlight ended not because his charges were disproved (they stuck in many minds) but because evidence of his past crookedness finally caught up with...
...plastic rosary and crucifix around her neck, Alice declared herself the possessor of many supernatural powers that have no connection with Christian belief. She spoke only Acholi and a smattering of English but claimed that her spirit was fluent in 74 languages. The oil she encouraged rebel fighters to smear on their bodies, which came from shea trees and is used in the manufacture of shampoo in the West, would make bullets "slip on top of your skin" and bounce back at the enemy. Alice also passed out sachets of powder ground from squirrels' bones that she promised would make...
...article confirms the worst fears of those of us who sense a growing intolerance and resurgent McCarthyism in this society. Only this morning I received in the mail a campaign letter from Senator Howard Metzenbaum requesting support in his fight against a red-baiting smear directed at him by extremist elements in the Ohio Republican party. The Senator will no doubt be even more saddened to learn that a Harvard professor has suffered the same injury from one of his own students. Orlando Patterson