Word: discredit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...regime. The three-man court-composed of officers of the Revolutionary Command Council-had prepared carefully. For 50 days they had led a parade of eminent witnesses-ex-Premiers, senior civil servants, big-time politicians-through a tour of the hidden sewers of the Farouk regime, hoping thereby to discredit Farouk, Serag el Din and the Wafd all at once. To a large extent, they succeeded. Items of testimony...
...sense of the common peril proves lasting, democracy in Italy may yet survive those who seek to kill it, those whose discordant actions discredit it, and those who are indifferent to its plight...
...Council with the other undergraduate groups. And no provision was made for coping with inevitable problems of political partisanship which a meeting of groups so diverse as the Liberal Union and the Young Republicans would produce. As a result, there were charges and counter-charges which could only discredit the Council and hinder the cause of academic freedom. Were the ruckus stirred by a meeting on parietal rules, it would be cause enough for dismay. But on issue like the Fifth Amendment and the loyalty of Harvard teachers, such bungling can be disastrous...
...From all over Africa came the mutters of hostile voices: "We told you so." The Blimps saw the scandal as proof that nature never intended that black men should govern themselves. Communists were delighted, for in the Gold Coast's troubles they saw an opportunity to discredit this best example of white colonialism peaceably surrendering sovereignty to Africans...
...move out (TIME, Feb. 25, 1952). Warren wrote the family: "I am not at all proud of the action of the people in the neighborhood of your new home . . . I agree with you it is just such things that the Communists make much of in their effort to discredit our system...