Word: discrediting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plain enough that anyone seeking to discredit a political initiative based on as sensitive a subject as family structure, particularly that of Negroes, will have no difficulty devising arguments. For generations, Negroes have labored under the attribution of genetic inferiority; to raise the question of a "deviant subculture" is to invite the charge of raising the same old canard of innate differences in a more respectable guise. The subject of family introduces the subject of sex, in this instance Negro sex, an issue of intense and not always acknowledged sensitivity for all parties. The subject of broken families raises...
...inflation--the discredit in front of the public eyes of those fake reformists--disorder out of demogagery and corruption--made the military intervene to reestablish law and order. But as very often happens, as soon as the military was in power they forgot about their previous commitments and there developed a sort of a lust for power in a minority of the armed forces. But a group that is dominant. And they got together with a few American business groups and they are dominating the country...
...strike against him: he was the political heir of ex-Strongman Adnan Menderes, whom the army overthrew in 1960 and executed. As a result, the army was at first suspicious of him, and the left-of-center opposition, led by Inönü, did its noisiest best to discredit him as a lackey of the U.S. For months the opposition man aged to block every government bill, since Demirel lacked a majority in the upper house of Parliament. Finally, the new Premier undercut Inönü by softening his stand against the East, wooed two independent Senators into...
Some delegates argued that it was redundant to call for the abolition of ranking and 2-S, but others said that it was important to discredit each for educational and moral reasons...
...relative tran-quality so that they could gain something themselves from contact with an academic community. And, in the case of McNamara, the case against debate seemed even more compelling. Neustadt was not about to pressure the Secretary of Defense into a session whose primary purpose would be to discredit government policies; to do so would be to violate the terms of McNamara's invitation and to surrender to unconcealed threats...