Word: discrediting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said the report: "Under an authoritarian regime disturbances may be minimized, though never entirely prevented, by the constant threat of imprisonment or death." But the experiences of democracies "discredit the naive and widely-held view that the remedy for strikes is simply to prohibit them. In a democratic country the main responsibility for strike prevention must rest with the parties to industry...
...believe this was a serious discussion of the most serious of all proposals. The questions from the students were sincere and intelligent, but they were turned aside alternately with facetiousness from Professor Seavey and with a threatening truculence by Professor Elliot, who attributed to his questioners the most discreditable motives. In both men there appeared a conscious insincerity that suggested they underestimated both the students and the war; and a ruthless and light-hearted belligerence, extremely disquieting to many who heard them and calculated to arouse the worst and discredit the best in undergraduate opinion...
...enthusiastic were they about it that the election-day toll in the provinces of Valparaíso and Aconcagua added up to one dead, 60 injured. Unfortunately for Don Tinto, this gave his Rightist Opposition the chance it had been looking for to discredit him. With a fine show of martyrdom the Rightists decided their candidates were no longer safe from street riots, announced their complete withdrawal from the Senate & Chamber elections of next March. Though this left the field wide open for President Aguirre's Popular Frontists, it also set up the familiar design for a South American...
...19th-Century stargazer once said that Mercury "seems to exist for no other reason than to throw discredit on astronomers." Last week the little planet (diameter 3,100 miles) was scheduled for a transit across the blazing face of the sun. From complicated formulas and tables, scientists had carefully determined the time. But when astronomers at Mt. Wilson's famed observatory shot the passage with motion-picture film synchronized with a clock, they found Mercury was 30 seconds late for its performance...
...first step then as now was to emphasize America's potential danger, the next to discredit the forces that were working for peace. Pacifists, Socialists, even those who merely opposed increased defense appropriations, were vilified and persecuted. After a year of persistent pressure and indoctrination the boys were packed off to the Plattsburg military camp to learn how to be heroes. The next year the pacifists, who were "worse than slackers," weren't permitted to speak; the year after that Harvard went off to fight for "the utmost of just causes...