Word: smearings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kennedy is a sort of prize-fighter too, but he seems at least able to deal with the concepts he uses as weapons; Mr. Nixon, by contrast, simply beats his enemies over the head with them, and rarely fails to call the utterances of the opposition irresponsibility or smear. At one point he even attacks, for reasons impossible to guess at, what he calls positivists, pragmatists, and "ethical neutralists...
...example, the KKK-sponsored magazine cites the "President of the Harvard University Student Body, [who] is what the Communists and mind-washed brain trusters refer to as an extreme right-winger. Attempts have been made to smear this young man, a Mr. Phillips, and to give him the silent treatment even in the campus newspaper, the CRIMSON...
When the case against him seemed overwhelming, Carlino launched a two pronged attack. First he tried a classic smear, telling the Assembly and the press that since the "Communist line" was anti-shelter, his accuser was therefore a Communist or a Communist dupe. Patronizingly, Carlino confessed: "I don't know whether he is being used or is part and parcel of the whole operation...
...current show, it is his enviable duty to plant long-lasting kisses on the ingenue, Bonnie Scott, but he recently turned on her with a four-letter snarl and added: "Blot your lipstick or I'll smear it all over your face." And at one final curtain, as the cast soaked up the downpour of applause, Morse turned and remarked to one and all (including 60-year old Co-Star Rudy Vallee): "Well, thev liked...
...left-hander who works carefully up from the lower right-hand corner so as not to smear his work, Mauldin generally has finished next day's cartoon by 6, personally escorts it to the engraving department ("I would never trust a copy boy with it") before "heading out for the Bismarck, a Post-Dispatch hangout, for a relaxing martini or two with friends. But his thoughts are never far from the job. His second wife Natalie, a Sarah Lawrence graduate whom Mauldin met at a Manhattan party after the war, has learned not to talk to Bill at bedtime...