Word: discreditable
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...Martyr Complex." A month later Stepinac again criticized Tito's systematic efforts to discredit and disrupt the Catholic Church. He was jailed for 17 days, then summoned to Tito's presence. Said the Marshal of the Archbishop: "I consider that he suffers from a martyr complex...
...keeps was clearer than in most other countries. When LaGuardia told Premier Alcide de.Gasperi that world food prospects did not justify a recent increase in the bread ration. De Gasperi and his Christian Democratic colleagues made speeches emphasizing the relation between living standards and the Communist campaign to discredit democracy...
...policy so apparently inflexible. They may perhaps have been on tenterhooks after the colorful demonstrations touched off by misunderstandings as to the purpose of a Liberal Union Win-the-Peace rally last March. Actually, the repercussions in publicity from that incident were generally playful and reflected no discredit on the University. At any rate, the publicity could never have been as damaging as if the Faculty had given the press an excuse to picture a bigoted ogre murdering free expression. If the more recent action had not been more obviously illogical and inconsistent with any intimate interest the University might...
...only Tory woman M.P. was addressing an elegant, perfumed gathering of Tory women in London. Viscountess Davidson proudly told how one of her party helpers had used an effective line to discredit Labor's program. When the "No More Fish" sign went up after an hour's wait in a fish queue, this bright Tory had said sarcastically to the angry women: "Well, never mind, ladies. What does it matter?-we own the Bank of England...
...wonder at "how naive and stupid" were the G.I.s. . . . Perhaps the former Army chaplain has forgotten that these "illiterates from Brooklyn, Texas and Los Angeles" are the same men who made it possible for him to return to this country in peace and hand down his judgments to their discredit...