Word: discredit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...held up a gory picture of a Turcoman woman, demanded: "What right did they have to kill this woman? Is that what the granting of rights to women means?" Almost absently, Kassem continued: "Look at these savage acts. Do they not discredit freedom and democracy? What have you done? These pictures cause pain. Look at the poor people being dragged in the streets." Composing himself, Kassem said: "Rest assured that this will not happen again. There is force ready to destroy anyone attempting...
...both Negroes and Jews. What's more, Burglund told Bunche, the admission of Ralph Jr. would mean the resignation of at least 200 of the club's members. "Neither I nor my son regards it as a hardship or a humiliation," said Dr. Bunche. "It is a discredit to the club itself. If I were younger, I think I'd put in an application-just for the hell...
Members of the Harvard Young Republican Club yesterday received in the mail anonymous engraved cards urging them to disown and discredit ex-president David F. Peterson '59 "for his negligible and insignificant contributions to Republicanism at Harvard." The card followed by two weeks a similarly engraved one praising Frederick P. Claussen '59, former vice-president, and Arthur I. Reade, Jr. '59, former secretary...
...disaster, the U.S. and British policy of hands off in Iraq seems at first glance negligent. In fact, it is the only policy open to the West. For even if Washington and London trusted Nasser enough to back him in his fight against Kassem, Western support would only further discredit Nasser in Iraqi eyes-and in the eyes of the whole Arab world. And any attempt that the West might make to bring direct pressure to bear on Kassem could only serve to drive him finally and utterly into the arms of the Communists...
Castro made it clear that no rule of law was involved; his bloody vengeance was fully justified. The trouble was the way "enemies" used it to "slander" Cuba. "Never has such an intense and violent campaign of discredit against Cuba been waged throughout the Americas. We must deprive the enemy of his principal weapon of attack." When would "the proceedings" end? Not, apparently, last week. Before Castro's firing squads went another 28 Batista men, bringing the grand total to 451. Among the new dead: the first judge, Arístides Pérez Andreu, president of Batista...