Word: discreditable
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...testified that an Assistant U.S. Attorney had coached him to testify falsely at the 1952 trials of 13 second-string Communist leaders. "He didn't lie to protect himself," summed up U.S. Attorney Paul W. Williams. "He lied to implicate others, to destroy our judicial system and to discredit persons and Government agencies fighting the Communist menace." The sentence: five years...
...story was true, Shida had disappeared in order to escape that cold fury. But was it the truth? Comrades loyal to Shida suggested discreetly that the whole thing was a fabrication designed to discredit him politically. If so, it was unlikely that he was still alive. Either way, it was another reminder that Stalins, little or big, are finding it tough all over...
After the disappointment of the first issue, however, there is hope for better things. If the editors of the magazine can devote a month to a genuine answer to i.e.,--an attempt to answer arguments and dispute tenets rather than an attack on prose style and an attempt to discredit their competitors,--they will have served the community well. If the interlude allows them to collect enough material to fill an issue with material worth reading (not material which is "the best we could get"), an even more valuable service will be rendered...
Despite some "twists" here and there, you could not but admire the man who is so honest with his convictions as to disregard the might of his opponents. It is too bad really that you try to discredit Nasser-the only man who has brought hope in our future...
...Europe last year. As a result of his temporary lifting of press controls, accounts of the corruption that normally flourishes in Asian regimes−opium trading, influence peddling−have been brought into the light of day by Pibul's enemies. The stories have tended to discredit, by association, the Pibulsonggram regime's longtime ally, the U.S. An American businessman reported his upcountry customers asking: "If America is giving so much money to Thailand, why don't they make the government improve itself?" A resentful feeling that Thailand is bound too closely to the U.S. is also...