Word: discredited
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...prodding, 41 competitors got on the mat to grapple for the Greco-Roman titles. The large turnout meant that matches had to be cut to ten minutes-from the regular 15. As in catch-as-catch-can, Greco-Roman allows points for falls, near falls, takedowns, reversals and "activity." Discredit points are handed out for illegal holds, unsportsmanlike conduct...
...organization, said yesterday, "Announcement in this morning's newspapers that H. P. Hood and Sons, which delivers more than half the University's milk supply, can double its milk supplies proves that the University is in league with the management of milk companies in an attempt to discredit the milk strikers...
...from being a security risk. Matter of fact, McCarthy now concedes that Chip Bohlen is not a 'security risk.' Senator McCarthy, if we read him aright, now bases his opposition on darker, more sinister innuendoes usually associated with Communist smear campaigns, such as the one organized . . . to discredit Whittaker Chambers' testimony against Alger Hiss...
...Liberal Union "was opposed to investigations of Communists in academic life, but was equally opposed to this sort of stupid and irresponsible action, like marching with banners, that can only discredit the cause of Academic Freedom...
...carat gold. In Galveston, one Joe Grasso flew into a swivet over the fact that two Texas pelicans died recently in the London zoo. "They were double-tough Texas pelicans-the toughest birds in the world," he cried, and were the victims of a "Communist plot to discredit Texas in particular and America in general...