Word: smears
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...Angeles, Leo Harvey blamed the whole uproar on a smear campaign by "the vested interests [who] fear competition . . ." But the chances of ever getting the loan looked pretty...
...night last week Florence and her father decided that there was no point in waiting any longer. In a soupy fog, with the tides unfavorable and the waves white-capped, Florence helped smear herself with chill-cutting grease, adjusted her suction-cupped goggles and waded into the black water off Dover. Three hours out, she was a very sick girl. Said father Chadwick: "She was vomiting every third stroke." Pills did not help, but finally one of her trainers spotted the jinx: fumes from a leaky gasoline line of an accompanying motorboat. Florence recovered as soon as the boat drew...
...tried, true, and traditional fact that, as any collegiate sport becomes more and more popular with the public, commercialism and professionalism rear into and smear up the amateur picture...
...turned the full weight of the presidency against "McCarthyism." He did not use the word, or mention the name of Wisconsin's Senator Joseph McCarthy; but in a full-dress speech dedicating the new Washington headquarters of the American Legion, Truman left no doubt that he thought "the smear technique" could be worked both ways...
...since she keeps her modern art purchases in a guest house. The boldest of collectors, she is also the most reticent, and springs from rather than to the defense of her choices. Along with distinguished sculptures by such European moderns as Brancusi, Giacometti, Lipschitz and Marini, she buys the smear-technique abstractions of such avant-garde Manhattanites as Baziotes, Motherwell, Rothko and Tomlin. Her hand-dribbled Jackson Pollock (see cut) is appropriately small...