Word: discreditable
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...received so many threatening letters over the way we've dished sparkling satire around that we decided to write a peaceful and completely innocuous column this time. In all, the column will serve two other purposes: it will discredit those who have complained about Cowie Hall by pointing out the far-worse treatment handed out to diners at Bowser University, a western college, and it will thereby elevate in the opinions of all the enlightened administration of Harvard magnates...
...plane plants were bothered by snoopers, and that production was booming in other engine plants. They also moved publicly to illuminate the fact. In Cincinnati they publicly questioned witnesses in an apparent attempt to prove that Wright itself had deliberately tightened up inspections to impossible levels to cut production, discredit the Committee. (Although rigid inspection requirements are set by the armed forces, good practice is to allow certain deviations which speed production, do not affect use of the product...
Soldiers, like all Americans, read news and editorials and either swallow them whole or discredit them entirely, depending upon what newspaper or magazine they had. I'm talking about 95% of soldiers. But those who read TIME neither swallow nor discredit immediately what they read...
...circle took place in the winter of 1941 and 1942-mostly in 1942. The conscription act was passed by Congress in September 1940. . . . Pearl Harbor was bombed on Dec. 7, 1941, and American businessmen were just as much against Hitler as was Mr. Davies. . . . The whole effort is to discredit Congress and at the same time to represent the Soviet dictatorship as an advanced democracy...
...Lewis won, he would stand forth as a stronger man than the U.S. President, a position calculated to discredit Mr. Roosevelt and lower the prestige of his office. He had already made some progress toward that position...