Word: discrediting
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...enthusiastic were they about it that the election-day toll in the provinces of Valparaíso and Aconcagua added up to one dead, 60 injured. Unfortunately for Don Tinto, this gave his Rightist Opposition the chance it had been looking for to discredit him. With a fine show of martyrdom the Rightists decided their candidates were no longer safe from street riots, announced their complete withdrawal from the Senate & Chamber elections of next March. Though this left the field wide open for President Aguirre's Popular Frontists, it also set up the familiar design for a South American...
...19th-Century stargazer once said that Mercury "seems to exist for no other reason than to throw discredit on astronomers." Last week the little planet (diameter 3,100 miles) was scheduled for a transit across the blazing face of the sun. From complicated formulas and tables, scientists had carefully determined the time. But when astronomers at Mt. Wilson's famed observatory shot the passage with motion-picture film synchronized with a clock, they found Mercury was 30 seconds late for its performance...
...first step then as now was to emphasize America's potential danger, the next to discredit the forces that were working for peace. Pacifists, Socialists, even those who merely opposed increased defense appropriations, were vilified and persecuted. After a year of persistent pressure and indoctrination the boys were packed off to the Plattsburg military camp to learn how to be heroes. The next year the pacifists, who were "worse than slackers," weren't permitted to speak; the year after that Harvard went off to fight for "the utmost of just causes...
...leader, Lenin. Sullivan's real name is given as Mikail Akim Seratov, and a picture of "Seratov" sitting on the arm of the Communist leader's chair is printed. His attempt to get the words "Lenin and Leningrad" banned from all books in Cambridge is called a scheme to discredit anti-Reds through ridicule...
...happen to know the personnel of the group which you dub "An A. M. A.-inspired citizens' committee." This attempt to slur a group of distinguished, public-spirited Chicagoans reflects only discredit upon the source of your news...