Word: discredit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bolivar DePugh, 42, who runs the national headquarters in tiny (pop.: 965) Norborne, Mo., disclaimed any involvement with the New York fiasco. "If they were members of the Minutemen, they were working independently," he said, adding that the affair might really have been "a counterplot, .perhaps Government-inspired" to discredit his organization. He added: "I have urged our people not to own weapons." In fact, DePugh and two other men were scheduled to go on trial this week in Kansas City, Mo., on charges of possessing and reactivating machine guns in violation of the National Firearms...
...scientists, they fear that government contributions will become government control, and the results of research will be perverted to fit convenient political and ideological purposes. But even if the government never goes so far as to bend the truth, the scholars worry that the taint of political involvement may discredit research carried out with even the most legitimate motivation...
...terror, which Mallin rightly defines as violence inflicted by armed men on helpless civilians. Whether it be mining of roads, machine-gunning of buses, kidnaping villagers, burning homes, or torture and murder, the Viet Cong employ "brutality with a purpose": to destroy the morale of the Vietnamese citizenry and discredit the Saigon government. Any opportunity will do. When typhoon rains caused massive flooding in the fall of 1964, the Viet Cong fired repeatedly at evacuation helicopters carrying civilians...
Tent Peg to Tent Peg. The result is citified chaos. Campsites are packed tent peg to tent peg, and latecomers drive around for hours to find a spot. On weekends, raucous teen-agers contribute heavily to a delinquency rate -mostly underage drinking and petty theft-that would do discredit to a city of 25,000. Bumper-to-bumper traffic jams constantly bring back unloving memories of the freeways. At night, a soupy pall of smoke curls from thousands of campfires in the tent city. Cracks Camper Mike Hemel, who fled the smog and traffic of Los Angeles for Yosemite...
...stake, the attacking Apaches tend to come across as more or less unfortunate bystanders. Even when bullets and arrows fly thickest, many just mill around in the background on horseback, as though someone had told them not to do anything-other than occasionally torturing white men-that might discredit their people. If anything, Diablo proves that it can be extremely difficult to promote racial harmony while playing cowboys-and-Indians...