Word: slandered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were really ghastly failures. Most ominous of all were the blistering attacks on "rightist opportunists," i.e., Communist officials who had protested that the scheduled leap forward was too far and too fast. Such opportunists, said the party, "are singing the same tune as the internal and external enemies who slander us," and they are "the main danger of the moment." Thus, if heads rolled in China for a colossal doctrinaire failure, they would, typically, be the heads of men who tried desperately to stave off the flop of the leap forward, not those who obstinately insisted...
...talking to you that you are a highly intelligent man who has studied the world situation . . . Why should somebody else tell you that you can listen to this radio broadcast but not that, and say, 'Oh no, we don't let you hear this because it is slander...
Readers' comments on both sides were vitriolic. "You should not have tried to bribe her as you did, Master Fascist," two students proclaimed, while another began, "In spite of the sinister machinations of a number of self-styled groups which continue to slander Ernst Hanfstaengl...
...cliches are hauled out once more. No Place To Run is supposedly about events in the Mississippi of the present and Stone is not writing fantasy. In fact, he goes out of his way to inject as many contemporary references as possible while evading the law of libel and slander. Without in any way acting as an apologist for the South, I am prepared to believe that the governor of Mississippi is not a boozed up old lecher who only did one decent thing in his disgusting life, which...
...general, and of Socrates in particular. The fact that Socrates was not a valid representative of the Sophists made no difference; a well-known whipping dog was needed, and fairness be damned. Ironically, Aristophanes could vent his aristocratic and antisocratic bias only in a highly democratic community that permitted slander, libel, blasphemy, and indecency. Socrates (played with gusto and the proper amount of eccentricity by Upton Brady) appears as the pettifogging proprietor of a "think-shop," a sort of Rube Goldberg of the intellect with his head in the clouds of the title; and his students stoop over so their...