Word: discreditable
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...disobedience such as Uphaus will have to adjust their news to the idea that this defiance of the Court rests on the same grounds as that of many segregationists. Finally, if New Hampshire is not to repeat the story of Willard Uphaus, to its own national and perhaps international discredit, its leaders and people must cure themselves of their stultifying suspicion of the foreign and unfamiliar...
...theater practice for students without professional aspirations, does it follow that no instruction or advice should be offered to such avocational students? I don't think it does. After all, they perform before a public which has a right to expect some competence, their work necessarily reflects credit or discredit on play and playwrights, their work is (or anyway can be) educational for themselves and their audiences (an acting group concerned only with its own rewards deserves no public), and students actors are usually, in name and in fact, associated with the college, which itself has (one hopes) some artistic...
...Congo were packing their bags and heading home in defeat in one of the indelible and humiliating scenes of the cold war (TIME, Sept. 26). Even as his contingent arrived on Manhattan Island, the U.N., in one overwhelming 70-0 vote, slapped down the Russian-led attempt to discredit Dag Hammarskjold and the U.N. itself in the Congo (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...minute attack on Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold and his conduct of the U.N.'s Congo forces. "The U.N. command and the Secretary-General in person," cried Zorin, "ignore the lawful government of the Congo. They do not merely fail to help the government, but attempt to discredit it. They try to impede in every way the implementation of measures which the government is taking to restore order and normalcy in the country. They try to assist the countries of NATO and the U.S. in particular . . . in their imperialist designs in Africa...
...Tshombe drank orange pop, Bunche argued earnestly for 2½ hours. Then Tshombe called in the press to declare airily: "I am confident no United Nations troops will enter Katanga." If they should, he went on, "the U.N. will bear a heavy responsibility and will provoke a conflict bringing discredit on it in the eyes of the world...