Word: discreditable
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...Raymond, director of SNCC's Canton project, said last night that the charges against Weaver and Hollander are completely false. He claimed that Mrs. Smith was bribed by local authorities to testify against Weaver and Hollander. "The white community tries to prevent us from making progress by seeking to discredit us among our own people," he said...
...obvious that efforts are being made to discredit our organization. This whole controversy about the sliding admission scale is the type of thing that the Dean's office would usually settle with the leader of a student organization after a brief discussion. Yet the first I heard about the Dean's objections was when a CRIMSON reporter informed me that Dean Watson said "... that, under no circumstances will he tolerate..." etc. Last term the CRIMSON refused to print one of our letters to the faculty committee which would have given the lie to the committee's charges against our Association...
...said Frank Sinatra Sr., "a fantastic job. The rapidity of the FBI in this case was just incredible." The FBI certainly did nothing to discredit this notion, and the facts seemed to bear out the idea. Only five days and a few hours after he was taken at gunpoint from a motel room on the California-Nevada state line in the Sierra Nevadas, Frank Sinatra Jr. was back home. Three men had been arrested and charged with his kidnaping, and all but $6,114.24 of a $240,000 ransom payment had been recovered. Besieged by newsmen's requests...
...seemed--like his friends F.O. Matthiessen and Kenneth Murdock--part of an age when giants walked in Harvard Yard. He was a giant, and now that we can take the full measure of his life's work, we suddenly feel small and mortal. The feeling is no discredit...
...annul the result to prevent followers of the exiled Dictator Juan Perón from returning to power through a popular front they had formed with Frondizi's party. Instead, the army simply disqualified most of the front's electors. Angered, Perón then tried to discredit the elections by ordering his followers to cast blank ballots. But he underestimated the widespread Argentine desire for an end to crisis. On election day, voters, fastening on the little-known Illia-a country doctor who still practices-as the most suitable compromise choice, gave him 27% of the vote...