51.   Regular readers of this column know that not long ago I found myself the target of a minor-league smear campaign.

52.   Republicans said he was the victim of a smear campaign.

53.   Republicans contended that the judge was the subject of a smear campaign by liberal groups.

54.   Runyon skillfully turns the hearings into a smear campaign of innuendo in which he repeatedly challenges Hanson to deny that she is the woman in the photos.

55.   She dismisses allegations that staffers in her department were routinely awarding contracts to friends and family are part of a smear campaign against her.

56.   She said Simpson has called his friends from jail, urging them to mount a smear campaign against her.

57.   South Korea, on the other hand, regards these rumors as a Japanese-orchestrated smear campaign to hurt its bid.

58.   Starr defended his actions again Thursday, saying the grand jury had the right to know if the investigation was being hindered by a smear campaign against prosecutors.

59.   That was assured by the media in both cities, which stoked the fires with a mutual smear campaign.