Word: discreditment
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This relates to an effort to discredit the original New Yorker story, which involved baseless allegations which were immediately withdrawn, all of which are discussed in Thernstrom's book...
...died of cancer less than two years later, at 57, but Silent Spring uncapped a wellspring of fears about the effects of heedless industrialization that still flows. A testament to her posthumous victory is the fact that the giant Monsanto Corp., which led the chemical industry's attempts to discredit her in 1962, today integrates environmental concerns into its strategic planning...
...first thing any Shavian will probably tell you about Pygmalion is not to think of it as the non-musical version of My Fair Lady. That's the alias by which it's most commonly recognized, which is not at all to its discredit: few more delightful musicals have ever been written. But what the romantic aura of the Broadway adaptation obscures, and what the new Lyric Stage production generally succeeds in conveying, is the darker, harder-edged quality that persists beneath all the sparkle...
...whole thing was a set-up, Einhorn assured followers. Through his antiwar research and with contacts that extended beyond the Iron Curtain, he simply knew too much about weapons development, psychic research and global conspiracies. Maddux was murdered to discredit him. The CIA, the KGB, who knew? The most damning evidence against him was also the most obvious proof of his innocence: Would a man as smart as he murder his girlfriend and keep the evidence at his bedside...
Technically, mere infidelity is not illegal in the military. True, there have been rules against it for more than 200 years. But Article 134 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice prohibits adultery only when it is prejudicial to "good order and discipline" or will "bring discredit upon the armed forces." For more than two centuries, millions of American servicemen honoring military tradition in bordellos around the globe were not deemed thus prejudicial; they worried more about disease than about prosecution. Many Air Force pilots today continue to salute each other with the phrase "Wings up, [wedding] rings off." Some...