Word: inveighing
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...People Listened. Under the constitution pressed through by Occupation Commander Douglas MacArthur at the end of World War II, the Japanese were guaranteed freedom of the press. But to the Japanese press, freedom soon became a mandate to inveigh against all authority. Says Takeshi Susuki, managing editor of Chubu Nippon: "The function of the press in Japan has always been, and remains, to fight against feudalism...
...point in his recent campaign for president, Dwight D. Eisenhower took the stump to inveigh against "Harvard words" and Harvard men in the United States government. This may have influenced the voters in Kansas City, but once the Eisenhower administration is underway anyone who makes a short survey of our Washington bureaucracy will still find it riddled with Harvard...
Railroader Robert R. Young, who likes to inveigh against the "goddam bankers," this week became one himself. Through three of his corporations, Young bought a controlling interest in the Marine Midland Corp., whose 14 banks and 113 branches, spread all over New York State, serve more than 500,000 depositors. He has been buying up stock for the past 18 months and last week owned 508,100 shares of common worth about $5,600,000, or 9½% of the bank's total common stock, and 11,220 shares of preferred (current price: about $56). Young says he intends...
...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...