Word: discreditable
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...Cover-Up." The Laborites were just as anxious to avoid any hint of "McCarthyism." Said Herbert Morrison, during whose tenure the pair escaped: "After all, the noblest band of men in history had their Judas ... If they had been arrested and ultimately found innocent, that would have brought discredit ..." Only a few were so rude as to be blunt. The truth is, snapped Laborite Alfred Robens, that there was "a close circle of 'coverup' for one's friends [in the Foreign Office], How can it be that a couple of drunks, a couple of homosexuals well known...
...French government, having done its considerable best to discredit and destroy Diem, now granted him its official recognition. So did Britain. He already had U.S. blessing and he quickly got U.S. diplomatic recognition. For Diem, the road to respect among the world's powers had been an uncharted, chuckholed, booby-trapped and lonely right of way, along which he had had to fight off the French, the Communists, obstreperous religious sects, pirate syndicates, and an indifferent and suspicious people. He had come a long way in 16 months...
...sublimity of balance Shared by few other dramatic works. For this reason it is a tempting challenge to any theatrical group, and for this reason to ask that the play be fully exploited is to ask a performance of unusual brilliance. It is in no sense to the discredit of The Eliot Drama Group that they have been unable to provide this. What they have done is combine talent and gusto in all aspects of a production, which--though it falls short of its potential lustre--is a credit to their labors, and most worthy of an audience...
...world for the simple reason that he's said so little so badly for so long. With occasional exception, the problem has been with us since the passive 1930s. The jelly-spined intellectual was upbraided then by Archibald MacLeish in The Irresponsibles. Despite recent attempts to discredit the eggheads, we need their visionary idealism to balance standpattism; we've a lot of that. Why not persuade intellectuals to sell their wares via TV in competition with other $64,000 questions...
...Engage in any transaction for profit that reflects discredit on the Department...