Word: discredit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Very little is known about the subtle and important relationships between population growth and economics. But enough is known to discredit Malthus. Americans take present population figures as a promise of more prosperity. Gone, for the first time in history, is the worry over whether a society can produce enough goods to take care of its people. The lingering worry is whether it will have enough people to consume the goods. The population figures seem to insure that the U.S. will; the rate of growth is the strongest buttress of confidence in the continuation of unprecedented prosperity (see BUSINESS). Every...
This is not, however, to discredit a Princeton team which held the Crimson even in first downs, gained only 41 fewer yards, and dropped two perfect passes in the Harvard end zone. But except for these lapses, the varsity defense was as good as it had to be--twice halting the Tigers inside...
...Fair Dealing Senator Hubert Humphrey). In last week's hearing he was the sole judge of his own fitness. The next day, in an outraged memorandum, he judged himself fit, retained the Lattimore case, rebuked federal prosecutors for acting "irresponsibly and recklessly." Their purpose, he concluded, was "to discredit, in the public mind, the final action of our courts, or to intimidate the courts themselves." Far from intimidated, Youngdahl proclaimed: "Under my oath to preserve sacred constitutional principles, I can properly do no less than to strike the [Government] affidavit as scandalous...
...home very soon." But Rudloff was persistent. "One never knows," he said darkly. A day or two later, when the patient suddenly died, his widow demanded an autopsy. A lethal dose of arsenic was discovered in the corpse. Confronted, Nurse Rudloff confessed to killing all four patients, just to discredit the chief surgeon. From East Germany last week came word that Rudloff the resentful nurse had been sentenced to death by guillotine...
...arriving at a partial explanation. If they were right, the answer went to the heart of France's political sickness. Their theory: Dides, under the direction of disgruntled right-wingers of Mendès' own Radical Socialist Party, had deliberately used the defense leaks to try to discredit Mendès and bring the downfall of his Minister of the Interior, François Mitterrand...