Word: smearings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sydney Greenstreet bullying Clark Gable in The Hucksters and Rock Hudson seducing Doris Day in Lover Come Back. In the public mind, the advertising business is firmly established as a grey-flannel world of three-Gibson lunches, three-button jackets, unabashed throat slicing and zany argot ("Let's smear some of this on the cat and see if she licks...
Using fallacious terms betrays your contemptible prejudice and bigotry against Spain and Franco. You can write nothing about this nation without smear and vilification. (THE REV.) WARREN C. LILLY, S.J. St. Luke's Catholic Church Lake Worth...
Owen was asked what he thought about the popular distinction between the "intellectual" and the "jock" at Harvard. "Rather than that, let's make the distinction between the jock and the athlete," he replied, insisting that the implications of the loaded term "jock" unduly smear many valuable citizens and serious students who happen to participate in athletics. Only a handful of students qualify for the unattractive term "jock," Owen noted, declaring that too many gentlemen get lumped together and become identified with the reputations and actions of the few--a strikingly small minority. "I suppose there are a few students...
...Dining Hall pundits are already estimating his chances of filling the 70,000-name petition necessary to put him on the ballot. The wags are coining such slogans as "Stu is Thru," and if the professor begins to look like a vote-getter he can expect a red smear...
Walt Dressier is the reluctant candidate. He is a smalltown lawyer, has ideals, and spouts them. His supporters, including Emil Hornstein, his campaign manager, listen with horrified dismay and, unlike the reader, bury their misgivings. The plot is hand-me-down-hostile columnist, incriminating photograph, Communist smear-and between, Traver rambles on with flatfooted passion about half a hundred worthy causes dear to his heart. So dear to his heart, in fact, that Traver (in real life John Voelker) resigned as a justice of the Michigan Supreme Court to write this book. He should have stayed on the bench...