Word: discredited
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...jails. They were picked for trial, the middle-aged woman judge indicated, because they were "intellectuals, students and ne'er-do-wells" who had acted "merely out of a spirit of adventure or because of lack of information." If by this choice Kadar had hoped to discredit the Freedom Fighters as a whole, he had miscalculated: Medical Student Toth's case for freedom was as powerful as it was poignant...
...real stake in the Oppenheimer case, Kendall continued, is "the internal security program of the U.S." The opponents of this program, "liberal intellectuals," tranform Oppenheimer into an example of "outraged scholarly innocence" in order to "discredit the security program." This he said, was the purpose of the men who appointed Oppenheimer...
...been invoked on many occasions in recent times. This may have given a widespread impression that the principal effect of the Fifth is to stand between wrongdoers and their just punishment. But the courts have made it plain that the Fifth Amendment cannot successfully be invoked merely because social discredit and persecution may be the consequence of testimony. That is why Prof. Edward S. Corwin was able to make the following statement of fact in his annotations of the Constitution: "The privilege exists solely for the protection of the witness himself, and may not be claimed for the benefit...
...Bank (the Colonial Office politely declined), and hit the stump. While tireless British colonial officials went into the jungle to persuade 3,000,000 eligible voters to register, and to show them how to cast their ballots, whispers went forth that the tribunal had been an "imperialist plot" to discredit the Nigerian nationalist movement, that Zik had in reality been building a bank for Africans which would "break the British banking monopoly...
...certain effect of the recent machinations and charges in the HYRC election race has been to discredit Republicanism in the College. Except for a few who may be caught up with the cops and robbers aspect of the affair or think they may actually gain practical experience in machine-type politics, politically inclined students have doubtless been discouraged from HYRC participation...