Word: discreditment
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...help us are still twelve human beings who react to honesty and chicanery just as we all do. In testifying before them, avoid the 'smart-aleck' attitude, the dogged attitude, and nervous hesitancy. Keep your temper. A clever cross-examiner will draw you out, emphasize your faults, and so discredit your testimony in the eyes of the jury. But the policeman armed with the truth has a 90 per cent advantage over any crooked lawyer...
...compliance of the city administration. The city council had shown signs of sympathy, but Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson and his cronies, with no definite plan of their own, offered only bitter opposition. Members of the Thompson cabinet charged, perhaps accurately, that Mr. Strawn's object was to discredit the administration, force Mayor Thompson out of office. The Mayor, apparently insensitive to the city's shocking condition, merely sneered at the Citizens' Rescue Committee as "reformers...
...quite clear that it is the deliberate intention of that editorial to attempt to make trouble among the American delegates, to discredit our Government before the Japanese delegation and thus to try to cause a breakdown of the London conference. . . . The Washington Post has a full right to oppose a limitation in arms, but I do not believe the American people approve of attempts to humiliate and cause dissension in their Government before representatives of foreign governments...
...week wiry Welshman David Lloyd George, suffering from a bad cold, said the MacDonald doings were "only a beginning" and bitterly flayed "huge war equipment." "In view of the Versailles Treaty," said he, between sniffs, "and the covenant of the League of Nations, this equipment is a farce, a discredit and a dishonor as well as a menace. Is a nation going to refer its vital issues to arbitration when it has millions of men and 50,000 guns to put against a nation with 166,000 men and no guns? So long as these instruments of war exist there...
...undergraduates of Harvard threaten to take young Cohen in charge and to give him the "water cure" before he brings further discredit upon the venerable institution at which he is an accredited student...