Word: discredits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tokyo's purpose was to frighten U.S. airmen with threats of savage punishment ("including the death penalty"), Tokyo had failed. If an incidental purpose was to further Berlin's prisoner-propaganda, the Japs had succeeded. If their purpose was to discredit U.S. official spokesmen, they had a certain measure of success. The Office of War Information argued that there were sensible-but secret-reasons for withholding the fact that some flyers had landed in Japanese territory. If so, this did not excuse falsification, and it did not better the plight of the captured pawns...
...their guards attempted to manacle them (after the Dieppe prisoners had been chained by the Germans). The Canadian Government had evidently intended to suppress the story. When the story came out, the Canadian Government made a strong protest to the U.S. State Department. Though the protest seemed designed to discredit the substance of the story, actually Ottawa confirmed the fact that there had been a riot. TIME was roundly rebuked for certain inaccuracies...
Members of U.S. Navy training units at Northwestern University petitioned National W.C.T.U. President Ida B. Wise Smith to undertake "a drive against the misconception that Navy men are intemperate," to "seek to discredit the popular simile 'reeling like a drunken sailor.' " Said President Smith, reassuringly: "We of the W.C.T.U. will be glad to help them defend their reputations...
...addition to this censorship of out-going news, the Germans had perfected their control over the news released in Germany, he stated, emphasizing that one of the basic aims of Nazi propaganda is to discredit democracy and the sincerity of men like President Roosevelt...
...undersigned," the petition reads, "in view of the menace to the victory of the United Nations occasioned by mob violence against Negro Americans and by the deliberate use of such incidents by Axis propagandists to divide the nation at home and discredit it abroad, respectfully request that you use the weight of your office to support Federal Anti-lynching legislation...