Word: undercutting
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...Robson dismissed the charges against Melekh on condition that he get out of the country on or before April 17. The judge said he was surprised by the request and acted on it reluctantly; he then dismissed the charges against Hirsch on the ground that Melekh's release undercut the case against his coconspirator...
...Atlantic, Admirals Radford of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Strauss of the AEC teamed up with John Foster Dulles to keep Eisenhower's plans mired in day-to-day trivialities. Dulles never expected results from negotiations, and thought of them simply as opportunities for propaganda. He continually undercut Harold Stassen's authority when Stassen showed signs of making progress in the London negotiations of 1957, forcing him to check and recheck with the department on the smallest developments. Stassen charged later that Dulles deliberately wrecked the conference...
Although Pabst accepted most of the plot revisions upon which Brecht insisted, Brecht quite rightly felt that the movie served to undercut rather than to preach the propaganda, and he sued for an injunction to stop the film from being released. He lost the suit, was paid handsomely for the film rights, and divorced himself from the production (after being assured that most of his plot revisions would be used and that all film rights would revert to him after two years). Kurt Weill won his half of the suit, and was allowed to rewrite his score for the movie...
...business to think about his oft-proposed changes in Senate rules and procedures. One prime goal: to get a softening of the famous Rule 22, which requires a two-thirds vote of all Senate members to cut off filibusters. Other Clark proposals would speed the legislative processes and undercut the traditional power of seniority (which gives the South a death grip on committee chairmanships). Clark's newest proposal was to fill Democratic leadership positions with Senators from the big industrial states, on the reasoning that it was these states that gave Kennedy his victory. "We must not," said...
...state, freely predicted a massive Kennedy sweep. As it turned out, the only Ohio county to perform satisfactorily for Kennedy was industrial Cuyahoga (Cleveland), which is bossed by canny Ray Miller, one of the old-line Democratic county chairmen whose power Di Salle has long been trying to undercut. In the rest of the state, the Republicans, riding Nixon's 260,000-vote majority, regained control of both houses of the legislature and picked up two new congressional seats. Part of the reason, political pros agree, was the unexpected strength of the religious issue among Ohio's Protestants...