Word: discreditment
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...with the advent of the dry season, is gaining in intensity. There the Communist forces, composed primarily of North Vietnamese regulars, plus some Viet Cong and Cambodian Khmer Rouge, are as determined as ever to isolate the capital of Phnom-Penh from the rest of the country and thus discredit or even oust the "salvation government" of Premier...
...some provocative questions. Can the feminists think clearly? Do they know anything about biology? What about their maturity, their morality, their sexuality? Ironically, Kate Millett herself contributed to the growing skepticism about the movement by acknowledging at a recent meeting that she is bisexual. The disclosure is bound to discredit her as a spokeswoman for her cause, cast further doubt on her theories, and reinforce the views of those skeptics who routinely dismiss all liberationists as lesbians...
...reminiscences, which cover a period ending shortly after the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, in the hope of preventing the appearance of a later, more comprehensive version-possibly including the story of his downfall in 1964. The authorities also hoped that errors in the unpolished reminiscences might discredit the document in the West...
Certainly one of the real reasons for the raid was to discredit opposition to the brutal escalation-Laird explained that bombing had taken place north of the 19th parallel as a "diversionary" move to protect the raiders. Senators who questioned the justice of bombing supply dumps, rail lines, truck depots, and Army barracks in the Hanoi area were thus neatly put in the position of opposing efforts to free U. S. prisoners...
Goodman uses the underground press not only to discredit the bourgeois press usage of phrases like "academic freedom" and "Free World," but also to overcome the somewhat arbitrary tendency of the press to concentrate its coverage on spectacles. Reading the book, we are less likely to encounter the verbiage the New York Times brought us about Woodstock than fascinating pieces by John Holt and Weatherman Bill Ayers on the need for revolutionary forms in education, personal accounts of radicalization, and essays on the women's movement...