Word: discreditable
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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...
Burns's first mistake was his unsubstantiated charge that former State Senator Scott Kelly, a rugged upcountry conservative who ran a strong third in the original Democratic primary, had offered to sell his support in the runoff for $500,000. Burns's idea was to discredit Kelly; instead, he got Kelly hopping mad. Attacking the Governor for what he called "the big lie," the bluff country boy took to the backwoods to support Burns's city-boy opponent, Miami Mayor Robert King High, 42. Still trying to undercut Kelly in the outback, Burns then raised the race...
...brotherhood's $25,000-a-year international president, S. Frank Raftery, 47, who had only recently succeeded to the post that became a family fiefdom during his father's twelve-year tenure, ordered top-level hearings on charges that Wilson was "bringing discredit" on the union. When 300 of Wilson's men showed up carrying protest placards (sample: "Get your hands off our throat"), the hearings petered out. Anything but subdued, the San Francisco firebrand planned to run for international vice president...
...reflects little discredit on the current Winthrop House production of Syracuse that it collapses shortly after the opening curtain. In the program Abbott's name has been omitted--possibly by design--but his dialogue and his jokes remain--to no one's possible advantage--and the three or four songs worth the name can't make an entire show...