Word: impugns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this was the worst kind of abuse: "Any Senator has the right to question . . . or condemn an official action of the body of which he is a member, or of the constituent committees which are working arms of the Senate, in proper language. But he has no right to impugn the motives of individual Senators responsible for official action, nor to reflect upon their personal character for what official action they took. If the rules and procedures were otherwise, no Senator could have freedom of action to perform his assigned committee duties. If a Senator must first give consideration...
...public life, the ambassador found the Indians not quite so ready to take to him. The newly independent Indians were ready to impugn U.S. motives and policies even before Bowles was able to explain them. The worst side of racial discrimination in the U.S. was worked into daily, throbbing headlines by the sensational Indian press and often by the more responsible papers. At every meeting he addressed, Bowles waited for his chance to explain the inevitable question: "What about the discrimination against American Negroes...
Brownell: I did not impugn his loyalty, and I did not intend to impugn his loyalty...
...Loyalty is one word. What other word would you use to state what you impugn...
Councillor W. Dennison Swan '16 immediately said "The ISA is an organization which brings foreign students to the United States to learn the American way of life." He continued, "The organization is composed of fine men and to impugn their motives by implying that they are Communists is ridiculous...