Word: blameless
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...Communist Chinese invasion of Korea was "aggression." but the West was also "not blameless"; the crushing of the Hungarian rebellion was unfortunate, but all the facts were not clear; when the Soviet Union broke the nuclear test moratorium last year, Nehru deplored "all nuclear tests...
Most education is subjective: to meet and know the other students, says Miss Sayre. These seem to consist of "the worthies, or the neat ankles," who lead blameless, well-groomed lives and exude "beige-colored righteousness"; and girls like Miss Sayre's friends, "fantasists" (sic) who seek "elaborations in dress, emotions, and language...
...cameras as TV prop men bring Birnam Wood-root, leaf and branch-to Dunsinane. Along the brooding battlements of Yugoslavia's 12th century Lovrijenac fortress, the ghost of Hamlet's father spurs his son's revenge; deep in Russia, at Tashkent, the jealous Moor strangles the blameless Desdemona. A marble shard's throw from the Parthenon of Sophocles and Euripides, a Greek Shylock pleads, "Hath not a Jew eyes?" -while halfway round the world, black-jeaned Australian troupers tour the outback by bus, with a crown and a sword or two as their props...
...misfit, spent months in jail. When he got out, Sine was fighting mad. ''I took up judo to get even with those s.o.b.s if I ever met any again. I hate all military paraphernalia, blustering ex-servicemen wearing medals, and by extension, every kind of cripple, however blameless...
...from Columbia University. This week Columbia's School of General Studies gave one to Pat Boone, boy singer (at 24, a whopping 20 million records claimed for him by Dot Records). Bland, brown-haired Pat has confounded the swamp dwellers of the music world because he leads a blameless home life, and he has delighted parents of teen-agers because, although he sometimes sings rock 'n' roll, he sings it in a damply pleasant voice and does not keep time with pelvic spasms...