Word: smearings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...government officials, who have been warned that arriving even five minutes late for work can mean instant dismissal. Gone are the high-powered smugglers' launches that once thronged Korea's harbors. Gone, too, are the "terrible tots" who extorted money from passing women by threatening to smear dirty hands on their dresses...
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...
...Angeles last July. Outraged, Wagner denied that he had ever done any favors for Sanders (whose lease on the pier is not being renewed), charged that the probe was politically motivated. Cried he, in the classic phrase of the public official under fire: "It's a smear...
...Barry Goldwater said: "A lot of people in my home town have been attracted to the society, and I am impressed by the type of people in it. They are the kind we need in politics." Republican Congressman Edgar Hiestand of California called the attacks "a pro-Communist smear," proudly noted that both he and John Rousselot, another California Republican, are Birchers. Ohio Republican Gordon Scherer, a member of the House Un-American Activities Committee, said that although he was not a member, he "looked favorably on this organization...
...Odetta sometimes polarize the disorder with a powerful, paradoxical image of salvation: the black earth-mother hanged on a flimsy white flibbertigibbet. But on the whole, Producer Richard (son of Darryl) Zanuck's attempt to clean up Faulkner for the family seems a bit like trying to smear the whole of Yoknapatawpha County with underarm deodorant. It might just possibly be done, but it sure does seem a peculiar thing...