Word: discrediting
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...Cuban government had already tried to discredit me abroad by printing a phony card that was supposed to show I was a member of Batista's political police and by trying to show that I had been a torturer. On my release I was easily able to show how worthless this proof was. If I had been a police torturer, Castro himself would have had me shot or imprisoned as soon as the revolutionaries seized power. Instead, I was promoted, and at the time of my arrest, I was a civil servant...
...proof that would be made public if I did not refrain from my "counterrevolutionary" activities. My answer caused him to slam down the phone. Subsequently, I received an anonymous telephone call warning me they would make public a film showing me exercising. They were, I presume, hoping to discredit my claims of paralysis. Finally, Fidel Castro wrote to French Communist Party Leader Georges Marchais describing me as a murderer and threatening to supply the proof. I publicly challenged Castro to bring forth his alleged proof. I am not afraid of the result...
...charges, among other things, that Clark depended on his staff so heavily that he never did original work on his opinions during his two years on the court of appeals and during his first year on the supreme court. She also claims that Clark, in an unethical effort to discredit Bird, was the anonymous source for a Los Angeles Times report on Election Day in 1978 that Candidate Bird and fellow Justice Mathew Tobriner were deliberately delaying release of a controversial decision about the state's so-called use-a-gun-go-to-jail law until after the voting...
...repression. Since President Reagan has said the U.S. is helping this effort, for the U.S. to allow 7,000 people to go in and then leave them out on a limb would be a disaster. It would be a repeat of the Bay of Pigs invasion and a total discredit...
Some sexologists fear that the current debate over the Masters and Johnson research will be used by "enemies" to discredit the whole arena of sexual inquiry. "The public wants to find us bad, and that includes some of the media," says Mary Calderone, a noted expert on family planning and sex education. "There is a tendency to snigger. They report that we go around telling each other about our sex lives. We don't do that. None of us are voyeurs. This is a serious business. We've been serious about it for years." Lewis Durham, executive director...