Word: discredits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when he was 52 and when, so potent was his example that "he was the idol of the people and flew in songs through their mouths." When Confucius became Chief Minister to Duke Ting of Lu, his theory of government was applied on a large scale-perhaps to discredit it, for "Rotten wood cannot be carved." The young Duke was led away from Confucian precepts by the insidious gift of 80 dancing girls from a neighboring ruler jealous of the prosperity and the magical reformation in manners that came with Confucius' government...
...Sicily when nerves of officers and men had been severely strained." The Army & Navy Journal was even blunter: "General Patton [is] familiar with the Articles of War, and with the punishment of dismissal they prescribe for cruel treatment of a soldier or for conduct of a nature to bring discredit upon the Service . . . [Patton] was not made subject to the Articles. . . . There are lessons to be drawn from this deplorable affair which the High Command hereafter should enforce. The kind of a democratic Army we have requires . . . discipline based upon mutual respect. . . . Officers, no matter what their rank, guilty...
...received so many threatening letters over the way we've dished sparkling satire around that we decided to write a peaceful and completely innocuous column this time. In all, the column will serve two other purposes: it will discredit those who have complained about Cowie Hall by pointing out the far-worse treatment handed out to diners at Bowser University, a western college, and it will thereby elevate in the opinions of all the enlightened administration of Harvard magnates...
...plane plants were bothered by snoopers, and that production was booming in other engine plants. They also moved publicly to illuminate the fact. In Cincinnati they publicly questioned witnesses in an apparent attempt to prove that Wright itself had deliberately tightened up inspections to impossible levels to cut production, discredit the Committee. (Although rigid inspection requirements are set by the armed forces, good practice is to allow certain deviations which speed production, do not affect use of the product...
Soldiers, like all Americans, read news and editorials and either swallow them whole or discredit them entirely, depending upon what newspaper or magazine they had. I'm talking about 95% of soldiers. But those who read TIME neither swallow nor discredit immediately what they read...