Word: inveigher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...major was executed by the British. In 1921, Maud became the first representative of the Free State in Paris. Soon, however, the Free State began to bear down on her beloved Irish Republican Army. Maud resigned her official post. At 70 she was still mounting carts in Dublin to inveigh against De Valera for his treatment of the Republicans...
Little men and great peoples were beholden to him, from China to Argentina, to the far corners of the British Empire. Had he not said: "Britain is a good risk for a loan"? The statement might be highly debatable as to fact; editors might inveigh against it for reducing to crass financial terms a cause immeasurable in money...
...perhaps half of the Jews gave their friends Christmas presents, told their children about Santa Claus; some even put Christmas trees in their living rooms and wreaths in their windows. So widespread is their celebration - purely social - of the Christian feast, that few rabbis bother any more to inveigh against it. Indeed, one rabbi last fortnight ardently defended Christmas-for-Jews, in the influential Protestant Christian Century. He was Louis Witt of Dayton, Ohio, leader in the Central Conference of American Rabbis, chief Reform Jewish body. Said Rabbi Witt...