Word: discreditable
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...said. Wiesenthal theorized that Farago may have been fed some false information by underground Nazi agents seeking to keep authorities off the trail of other war criminals. Wiesenthal, among others, further speculated that the government of Alejandro Lanusse may have leaked material to Farago to discredit Perón on his return to Argentina...
...Jews. While in Boston to stump for Edward Teixeira, the unsuccessful C.P. candidate for state representative from Wand 14 Angela explained that the situation of Jews in Russia "has been totally blown out of proportion by the bourgeois press because they're going to do everything they can to discredit socialism...
Whatever the scientists find, the people of Naples are not likely to have their faith shaken by bloodless unbelievers. They have been through it all before. In 1750 one iconoclast sought to discredit "Miracle" San with a Gennaro mixture by of gold, effecting mer the cury and sulphide of mercury. In 1890 an Italian professor got results from a concoction of chocolate, water, sugar, casein, milk serum and salt. Even the Vatican's doubts did not daunt the Neapolitans. After San Gennaro lost his place on the church calendar, a fervent follower scrawled on the saint's altar...
...implication that no other publications influenced people and policies might be a compliment-but is still false. A certain confusion is evident too. Luce leads the U.S. into World War II, the cold war and Viet Nam, ruthlessly shaping public opinion. But when Swanberg needs other ways to discredit him, he has Luce acting from fear of public opinion. TIME'S attacks on Joe McCarthy, Swanberg regards as an example...
...handling of the Eagleton affair, dissension within his own campaign organization, and contradictory statements that called his credibility into question. When McGovern came up with new tax proposals two weeks ago, David Broder noted wryly in the Washington Post that the candidate had "interrupted his devastatingly effective effort to discredit himself as a presidential contender." "McGovern's problem these days," wrote Bob Healy in the Boston Globe, "is that he does not know what he wants to say, how to say it, and with what kind of constituency he wants to be identified...