Word: discredits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...arranged for him to be questioned by state police investigators. Early this year, Rugendorf, near death from heart disease and diabetes, again fingered Hohimer, this time from a stretcher in a courtroom where he was a defense witness in the robbery trial of another gang figure. Attempting to discredit some of Hohimer's testimony against him, Rugendorf asked the judge to come close to the stretcher and whispered to him: "Hohimer is the fellow that killed Percy's daughter. You got that from me." Rugendorf died one month later...
Shockley's views have been open to serious question all along, and other scientists have taken pains to discredit both the quality of his scholarship and the validity of his conclusions (TIME May 15). Under the First Amendment, however, not only does Shockley have the right to propound his notions, but those who would like to hear them are entitled...
...group demanded and got $1,000,000 from Ford for ambulances and medical and school supplies for the Argentine poor. This time the motive was less charitable. The shooting was seen instead as part of a systematic effort to scare off foreign capital and at the same time discredit the beleaguered regime of Juan Perón, who has vowed to bring terrorism under control...
...White House perhaps had grounds to complain, but its attempt to use the story as a means to discredit general press criticism seemed heavy-handed to most newsmen...
...Florida VVAW know that a former CIA agent was paid $1000 a week to "infiltrate, disrupt and discredit the VVAW," Perdue added. He said that there are a lot of suspicious bits and pieces that the group had not yet put together--car break-ins, missing mail and lots of tapped phones...