Word: discreditment
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...unlikely that the bill will reach the Senate floor, at least in a session when most politicians are plumping for stiffer crime controls to get votes. It is just this connection between crime and death sentences that the testimony sought to discredit. After Delaware, for example, reinstated capital punishment in 1961, there was an increase rather than a decrease in the number of murders. The five states with the highest murder rates-Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, Florida and Mississippi -also were among the leaders in executions between...
...make L.B.J.'s last days in office soar. Aides are studying history to gain insights from predecessors, but the findings are disappointing. Eisenhower traveled widely and issued a warning against the military-industrial complex. But Kennedy was murdered, Truman disdained, Roosevelt died in office, and Hoover was in discredit...
Many, but by no means all, of the Intellectuals, who would like to see some cultural liberalization in Poland are Jews. The Bureaucrats seek to discredit the entire movement, recognizing it as ultimately political in nature, by portraying it as led by Jews--and then branding these Jews as anti-nationalistic. A slight degree of plausibility for these charges, which may be all that is needed to tap the latent anti-Semitism of the Polish masses, is provided by the fact that many of the leaders of the Stalinist regime in Poland before 1956, and indeed many key officials...
...Grand Jury in January. The indictment declares that the five men took part in a nationwide program of draft resistance and the defense kept up a drumfire of demands that the government produce specific information to substantiate the existence of the anti-draft conspiracy. The lawyers pressed particularly to discredit the government's depiction of the alleged conspiracy's size. "Anything that happened within the nation--I would assume all 50 states--could come with in the purview of this indictment," St. Clair said. Leonard Boudin, Spock's sad-eyed attorney, was particularly critical of the indictment's supposed vagueness...
...March 22] has brought back the virtue Hope to the American political scene. Regrettably, the Senator's antiwar campaign is also based on hope, not reality. The Senator hopes that if we stop the bombing there will be peace-as if events had not cast even the slightest discredit upon such fatuous wishing. Until the Communists show an interest in a just peace that does not involve simple N.L.F. takeover, a bombing halt would be merely a quixotic exercise in futility...