Word: discredit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There is an organization seeking to control the United States today that is more subversive to our basic American democratic way of life than all the Communist hordes ... It is the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church, [which] seeks to discredit and destroy other religious groups in the United States . . . and to establish fascism in America...
...last week the U.S.S.R.'s Bulganin, in his third letter to President Eisenhower in two months, went more than a step too far. In a too-obvious attempt to discredit Secretary of State Dulles, Bulganin suggested bypassing a meeting of foreign ministers in the preparations for the summit because of the "biased position" of some foreign ministers. Said Bulganin: "It is hardly necessary to explain why we would like to avoid this." At once U.S. Congressmen and editorial writers began to rally around Dulles with a rare show of strength that fortified the whole U.S. position...
...government officials should depend on good taste. A more pristine view might be adopted, however, to guard against graft and avoid any public misconceptions. No matter what the motive, all large gifts, whether beavers or just plain gold watches, tend to look like indirect payoffs for favors and thus discredit the government...
...have turned to cryptology to prove that the Bard's words were in a kind of cipher that concealed messages from their true author. Last week, in a new book called The Shakespearean Ciphers Examined (Cambridge University; $5), U.S. Cryptologists William and Elizebeth Friedman gave evidence that should discredit these investigators once and for all. The Friedmans' credentials are impressive: William led the team that broke the Japanese "purple" code a few months before Pearl Harbor (TIME...
Three days after Nkrumah's conciliatory broadcast last week, Edusei promised a toga-clad, hallelujah-singing crowd at Cape Coast that by next month Parliament would vote that "anybody who gives a speech to the discredit of the government will be removed to a detention camp." Shaking his leopard-spotted baton, he shouted: "I love power, and so Prime Minister Nkrumah has given me the most powerful of all the ministries. I am going to use it sternly and strongly, no matter what." When the crowd whooped gleefully, "We like it. we like it!", Edusei responded: "Call us Communists...