Word: discredits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...showing of The Gold Rush (with sound), Red intellectuals again saluted the little man who, in Russian eyes, can do no wrong. Keynoted Solomon Mikhoels, director of the Jewish Art Theater: "Who are these . . . mercenary tricksters of the Hearst and McCormick tabloid press . . . who started slinging mud . . . morally to discredit Chaplin's name so as to weaken the force of his ideology? . . . Trotskyites...
...lost touch with opinion, Congressional and public. This was easily negated: the President was not too immersed in the war to shake up his Term IV staff, and insert a fresh young leader, Robert Hannegan, as Democratic National Chairman. 2) That the President had deliberately set out to discredit Congress as a campaign technique, aimed mainly at soldiers, who are supposedly angry with Congress over the soldiers' vote bill...
When Bernadette Soubirous first saw, or believed she saw, her shining Lady (1858), the local rationalists hauled her before the police, hired a psychiatrist for her, boarded up her healing spring, did everything possible to discredit her. At first only the primitive, the wretched, the poor, believed in her with the intensity of their massive, sorrowful faith. Bernadette's priest (Charles Bickford) found it painfully hard to believe her. The Roman Catholic Church was cautious, but at last was convinced, and Bernadette spent her last years in a convent...
...Webster: "A defamatory falsehood published for political effect." The word was coined after "excerpts" from a non-existent Travels of Baron Roorback were published in 1844 to discredit James K. Polk...
...Star-Times triumphantly editorialized on Page One: "Strange and decadent journalism that, in order to embarrass or discredit a competitor, lines up on the side of suppression, censorship and whitewash." The Globe-Democrat and the Post-Dispatch had nothing...