Word: discredits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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According to one Faculty member, Kissinger deliberately spread the impression in Washington after May that "Harvard would never ask him back and was treating him like a pariah." Kissinger's purpose in doing this, he said, was to discredit the professors who had criticized him and to gain political mileage among Washington Republicans who would regard a snub by Harvard professors as a sign of status and reliability...
Kunstler compared the Harrisburg conspiracy trial to the burning of the Reichstag in 1933. Just as the Nazis were determined to discredit their main opposition, the Communist Party, he said, the Federal government is trying to convince the American public that a widespread threat of terrorism exists within...
Berrigan and four others-the Rev. Joseph R. Wenderoth, the Rev. Neil R. McLaughlin, former priest Anthony Scoblick, and Eqbal Ahmad, a fellow at the Adlai Stevenson Institute of Public Affairs in Chicago-accused the Government of using the charges to discredit opposition to the Vietnam...
...with the advent of the dry season, is gaining in intensity. There the Communist forces, composed primarily of North Vietnamese regulars, plus some Viet Cong and Cambodian Khmer Rouge, are as determined as ever to isolate the capital of Phnom-Penh from the rest of the country and thus discredit or even oust the "salvation government" of Premier...
...some provocative questions. Can the feminists think clearly? Do they know anything about biology? What about their maturity, their morality, their sexuality? Ironically, Kate Millett herself contributed to the growing skepticism about the movement by acknowledging at a recent meeting that she is bisexual. The disclosure is bound to discredit her as a spokeswoman for her cause, cast further doubt on her theories, and reinforce the views of those skeptics who routinely dismiss all liberationists as lesbians...