Word: discreditable
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...move out (TIME, Feb. 25, 1952). Warren wrote the family: "I am not at all proud of the action of the people in the neighborhood of your new home . . . I agree with you it is just such things that the Communists make much of in their effort to discredit our system...
That the Poets' Theater does not master this difficulty in its production of Purgatory and The Player Queen is no discredit. Both plays are well staged, and the innate beauty of the pieces themselves make the venture worthwhile...
Repercussions over the Chambers-Bentley testimony waxed hot. Politicians, spurred by patriotic fervor and desire for national notoriety, shouted of widespread Communist infiltration into key government policy posts. "Red herring!" countered President Truman and he dismissed the charges as cheap political attempts to discredit his Administration. But indications clearly pointed toward infiltration and systematic espionage, especially in the Executive Department...
...convinced that the hounding of career people by individual Congressmen is very, very wrong. I don't mind holding people responsible for failure, but not for judgement. It is enough now to make a public insinuation to discredit a man in the public eye and deter him from doing his work. Career services should not be a football of politics," he insists...
Regardless (I almost wrote "irregardless"!) of Mr. Gwirtzman's purpose in devoting a full page to discredit the Post, the CRIMSON editors would do well to keep on studying the Post series (it will only cost them a nickel a day) and show in what respect there are error...