Word: discredit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reminiscences, which cover a period ending shortly after the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, in the hope of preventing the appearance of a later, more comprehensive version-possibly including the story of his downfall in 1964. The authorities also hoped that errors in the unpolished reminiscences might discredit the document in the West...
Certainly one of the real reasons for the raid was to discredit opposition to the brutal escalation-Laird explained that bombing had taken place north of the 19th parallel as a "diversionary" move to protect the raiders. Senators who questioned the justice of bombing supply dumps, rail lines, truck depots, and Army barracks in the Hanoi area were thus neatly put in the position of opposing efforts to free U. S. prisoners...
Goodman uses the underground press not only to discredit the bourgeois press usage of phrases like "academic freedom" and "Free World," but also to overcome the somewhat arbitrary tendency of the press to concentrate its coverage on spectacles. Reading the book, we are less likely to encounter the verbiage the New York Times brought us about Woodstock than fascinating pieces by John Holt and Weatherman Bill Ayers on the need for revolutionary forms in education, personal accounts of radicalization, and essays on the women's movement...
...Military. Defense Attorney Brown argued to the jury (two colonels, three captains and two lieutenants, six of them Viet Nam veterans) that the trial was an attempt to discredit the Army itself. "I don't like to see the prosecution of any young man sent to fight for his country. I don't like what is happening in this country today. Some elements are trying to undermine and destroy the military of this country. They'd love to gut the military because when you gut the military, you destroy a country. Every time you turned around, some...
...Algiers such a masterpiece. But he partially redeems himself with a typical Pontecorvian touch, transforming Evaristo Marquez, an illiterate cane cutter, into an astonishingly effective actor. The growth of Marquez as a leader, his tortuous grappling with the idea of freedom, are poignant and wholly believable. It is no discredit to Marquez that his raw canebrake emotions have been exploited for superficial political diatribe...