Word: discrediting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only Tory woman M.P. was addressing an elegant, perfumed gathering of Tory women in London. Viscountess Davidson proudly told how one of her party helpers had used an effective line to discredit Labor's program. When the "No More Fish" sign went up after an hour's wait in a fish queue, this bright Tory had said sarcastically to the angry women: "Well, never mind, ladies. What does it matter?-we own the Bank of England...
...wonder at "how naive and stupid" were the G.I.s. . . . Perhaps the former Army chaplain has forgotten that these "illiterates from Brooklyn, Texas and Los Angeles" are the same men who made it possible for him to return to this country in peace and hand down his judgments to their discredit...
...curt statement, the Embassy charged that attempts had been made "to cast a shadow and to discredit" members of its diplomatic staff. Cried the Embassy: "The sources of this slanderous information are the false statements of the former employe . . . Gouzenko, who has stolen money from the Embassy and who is indictable for the committed crime in case of his return to the U.S.S.R...
...Memoirs). Webster's evidence: Twain's letters, now published in book form, to "Dear Charley"-many of which show great respect for Webster. and all of'which indicate that Webster would have had an easier time managing a swarm of bees. "I am not trying to discredit Mark Twain," Author Webster explains, "for I always liked and admired him very much. I feel a good deal the way Hamlet must have felt when he wanted to see justice done his father...
...early 30s were commissioned as lieutenants junior grade or even full lieutenants. They donned uniforms, and it was hoped that some day they would see fit and be able to carry out the duties of an officer in the U.S. Navy. Many filled the bill; some, to the eventual discredit of the Navy, never...