Word: discreditment
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Tito evidently felt confident enough to renew his attacks on the Chinese Reds, even if Moscow has tempered its own; the Chinese, he sneered, had over-estimated "their role in the world," and he condemned their "persistent efforts to discredit the policy of peaceful and active coexistent." Tito also sounded relatively secure in dealing with domestic matters, including the age-old feuds among Yugoslavia's many nationalities, which Tito has greatly subdued but not eradicated. Though claiming that "we are among the first countries in the world in rate of economic growth," Tito admitted to inadequate labor productivity...
...early Christians abhorred cremation as a pagan practice, and ever since, the Roman Catholic Church has held that the body is not for burning. When cremation was legalized in northern Europe during the 19th century, the Catholic Church suspected an atheistic plot to discredit belief in resurrection. In 1886 the Roman Inquisition declared that Catholics who cooperated in cremation were guilty of sin, and the prohibitions were repeated in the 1917 revision of canon...
...Administration intends to give some support to its often avowed statement that the Harvard Council of Undergraduate Affairs does have some influence, then it should acknowledge the existence of de facto insufficient illumination. Prolonged inaction and indifference has thus far tended to both discredit the Administration's statement in regard to the HCUA and to dim hopes for improved lighting...
...were turned on groups of peaceful demonstrators. This is the man who even today is actively denying Negro children access to the University of Alabama. This is the man who is trying to destroy the political system of the United States as we know it, and who seeks to discredit President Lyndon B. Johnson. This is the man who flies the Confederate flag over the Statehouse in Alabama in place of the Stars and Stripes...
...lawyer having any justified grievance against a member of the judiciary should lodge that grievance with the appropriate authorities and not indulge in public defamation. Mr. Belli should know this. That he should so flagrantly disregard the code of professional ethics and his oath as an attorney is a discredit to him and to his profession." Belli responded by saying he would resign from the A.B.A...