Word: discredit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...welter of legal reforms pushed through by Charles de Gaulle when he took over France's destiny last year, two new laws set the press to trembling. One decreed imprisonment or fines for anyone publishing "by act, word or writing that which throws discredit on jurisdictional act or decision." The other authorized the same punishment for "whoever publishes before the intervention of the definitive jurisdictional decision comment tending to exercise pressures on the declarations of witnesses or on the decisions of judges...
...area's chief nationalist spokesmon. Until his return to Southern Rhodesia last summer, there had been no trouble in six years, but since then his messianic influence seems to have encouraged the nationalist African Congress party to turn from politics to militant agitation. This has served to discredit the moderate whites who permitted his return to Rhodesia and to strengthen extremists on both sides...
...Without Justice"), a military court convened last week at the Army Chemical Center at Edgewood, Md. to judge ten young privates who never wanted to be old soldiers at all. The ten: drafted college-trained scientists stationed at the center to carry on Army chemical research. The charge: bringing discredit to the Army with bawdy songs and raucous conduct during an off-post beer party...
...discredit to Oberlin's able President William E. Stevenson to say that while his predecessors were scholars, he -a onetime Wall Street lawyer - is primarily a money-getter. Even for a relatively wealthy ($50 million) school such as Oberlin, money-getting must color almost all public pronouncements. It is no accident that at last week's 125th anniversary convocation, three of four outside speakers - the Ford Foundation's Henry Heald, the Carnegie Foundation's John Gardner and Standard Oil of New Jersey's retired Board Chairman Frank Whittemore Abrams - were close to the strings...
...first, but warms up to moving eloquence in the trial scene. And she performs a remarkable ten-minute bit of inanimation in the final scene. Hermione's attendant Paulina is one of literature's great denunciators, and Nancy Marchand brings plenty of force to the part. It is no discredit to her that she cannot match the magnificent power that Florence Reed imparted to the role in the Theatre Guild production a dozen years...