Word: discreditment
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...does nothing to stop them beforehand, students are not free to run about the streets at night disturbing the peace, though such things have been known to happen, or to use Boston as the taking off spot for a round of riotous living, riotous living which can only reflect discredit on him who indulges and on the Harvard which does not hinder him. The price of living in a civilized society is paid by not murdering anyone whom you happen to dislike, or running off indiscriminately with other peoples' wives. Likewise the price of attending a liberal institution...
...move from the point of view of President Quezon was that it would bring independence before the end of his six-year term. Disadvantage was that, by disrupting island economy even more thoroughly than it will probably be disrupted by independence in 1946, it might react greatly to the discredit of its sponsor. President Roosevelt appointed a committee to investigate the islands, determine how the transition to economic self-control should be effected. This gave Shadow Boxer Quezon a chance for some more spirited footwork in which he did his best to make a favorable impression on the committee...
That Mrs. McCarthy, whose husband was a Democratic Senator in Landon's Legislature, was not entirely disinterested in producing evidence reflecting discredit on the Landon administration, Kansas was well aware. During her Congressional term, a bitter argument preceded her removal from a park board post to which Mrs. McCarthy felt herself entitled for life. Answer to her charges by Will T. Beck, former member of the State Board of Administration, was that "most of the girls sterilized were sexual perverts, obstreperous, fighters or near degenerates. . . . Parents or guardians . . . were notified. . . . Few appeared to protest." Mr. Beck also produced...
...whose education was, as he says, "dubious," ducked school at 16 and worked as sailor, carpenter, stage manager, had one novel published, May Day, before enlisting for Spain. Volunteering in October 1936, he saw six months action, was at one time reported dead, returned this spring to England "to discredit this rumor," is now living in Lancashire...
...never forgive or forgot the humiliation inflicted to her by Italy at the time of Ethiopian War and never swallow the bitter pill of lost the control of the Mediterranean Sea, Hitler talk too often of the return of the German colonies, so John Bull do his best to discredit these two countries, so in case she prepare a war against them, she will have an alibi and blame Hitler and Mussolini to have provoked...