Word: discredited
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...curt statement, the Embassy charged that attempts had been made "to cast a shadow and to discredit" members of its diplomatic staff. Cried the Embassy: "The sources of this slanderous information are the false statements of the former employe . . . Gouzenko, who has stolen money from the Embassy and who is indictable for the committed crime in case of his return to the U.S.S.R...
...Memoirs). Webster's evidence: Twain's letters, now published in book form, to "Dear Charley"-many of which show great respect for Webster. and all of'which indicate that Webster would have had an easier time managing a swarm of bees. "I am not trying to discredit Mark Twain," Author Webster explains, "for I always liked and admired him very much. I feel a good deal the way Hamlet must have felt when he wanted to see justice done his father...
...early 30s were commissioned as lieutenants junior grade or even full lieutenants. They donned uniforms, and it was hoped that some day they would see fit and be able to carry out the duties of an officer in the U.S. Navy. Many filled the bill; some, to the eventual discredit of the Navy, never...
...President's sentiments sounded somewhat quaint and academic against the background of industrial strife and power politicking, perhaps this was not so much to the discredit of Harry Truman as it was indicative of the feckless fatalism of the public...
Future historians will fill yards of bookshelves dividing the credit for the invasion success among the Allied generals, admirals and statesmen, and the discredit among Hitler, Rommel and Rundstedt. It is generally agreed already that the Germans held back their reserves too long, and their Fifteenth Army north of the Seine until too late, because Eisenhower cleverly kept them worried about a second invasion in Pas de Calais. Bradley was the line smasher as well as quarterback for the Allied operations (as he is now). He did not fumble, and he invariably capitalized on the errors of the enemy...