Word: inveighed
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...decent respect for human life requires a serious, sober response to the news of his death. It is at once strange and sad that many of those conjuring up images of Big Brother display the very lack of humanity, of human sensitivity, that they so readily inveigh against...
...capital of Managua and throughout the countryside, youthful reservists, peasants and members of so-called mass organizations are being armed and dispatched to the borders under the red-and-black banners of the ruling Sandinista National Liberation Front. Along roadsides and on the adobe walls of village buildings, posters inveigh against the evils of "Yankee imperialism." Other placards extol "revolutionary heroes" who have fought against and died in a U.S.-backed "counterrevolutionary" threat. In local schools, factories and farming cooperatives, activists exhort citizens to volunteer for militia duty. Under a new conscription law that went into effect this month, Nicaragua...
...Swiss rescue operation, Polish officials conceded that there were no links between the terrorists and any groups in Poland. Despite that admission, the fact was that the Bern terrorists had given the military government a boost, rather than the opposite. Throughout the siege, the Jaruzelski regime was able to inveigh even more against the trade-union movement that the Communist leadership in Poland is striving to crush...
Pasternak is made to inveigh against capitalism, under which "every man must be prepared to commit any crime for the sake of money." In the U.S.S.R., on the other hand, "the Bolsheviks are reshaping human nature, directing man toward a better future." Metamorphosed into a true Soviet patriot and Communist, the fictional Pasternak has little trouble turning down the Nobel Prize: "What if I really am just a puppet in the hands of the imperialists?" In any case, he concludes, the prize was "not worth having...
...nothing Congress." Murray Weidenbaum of Washington University in St. Louis urges repeal of many Inflationary federal regulations. "My advice is: 'Don't just stand there, undo something.' " But Heller figures that all the Government can do to head off stagflation is "pray and inveigh...