Word: discreditable
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...grand jury indictment alleges that the reporters conspired with Keen to bribe the lieutenant. The ostensible purpose: to halt a police investigation of a burglary. The Star management and staff, and many others in Indianapolis, regard the charge as a spurious attempt to discredit the exposes. Pearcy is up for re-election this fall, and though the Star usually supports Republicans, it has attacked his record. "This is a trumped-up affair and the prosecutor knows it," says Managing Editor Robert Early. "It's nothing but goddamned hokum." Says Douglass R. Shortridge, president of the Indianapolis Bar Association...
...million to help prevent the election of Allende and, in Mr. Colby's words, "destabilize" the Allende government so as to precipitate its downfall. The agency activities in Chile were viewed as a prototype, or laboratory experiment, to test the techniques of heavy financial investment in efforts to discredit and bring down a government...
...testimony indicates that the Agency role in 1970 was viewed as that of the "spoiler," involving general attempts to politically destabilize the country and discredit Allende to improve the likelihood that an opposition candidate would...
...calm was undoubtedly the result of a carefully orchestrated campaign by the military to discredit Haile Selassie. It reached a crescendo last Wednesday, the Ethiopian New Year and the day before the Emperor's ouster. For the first time, Patriarch Abuna Teweoflos of the Ethiopian Orthodox (Christian) Church did not mention the Emperor-head of the church to which half the Ethiopians belong-in his sermon. Instead, the patriarch asked God's blessing for the officers' movement. Later in the day the coordinating committee broadcast a scathing attack on Haile Selassie, denouncing him for erecting statues...
...accept the fact that they have been discriminating, and after you show them how to stop discriminating, you expand competition. White males must now compete with groups that they never had to confront before and this is a threat to their security. Then they have to find means to discredit the new competition in any way possible...