Word: lambast
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...comment rationally on the Senator's speeches and campaign." Snapped Crider: Choate "thinks you must pull your punches in the event that the candidate you don't like wins the nomination. I feel that you must not only support the guy you're for, but also lambast...
...Wroclaw (formerly Breslau) in Poland in 1948, a "group of French and Polish intellectuals" held the World Congress of Intellectuals. Many men of good will attended, to hear Russians like Alexander Fadeyev, secretary general of the Union of Soviet Writers, lambast America. Some, like British Scientist Julian Huxley, returned to complain in apparent bewilderment that the congress "preached war, not peace." The congress paid no attention, elected a permanent International Committee of Intellectuals in Defense of Peace, and planned national branches to hold other peace meetings...
...Give them their share of newsprint and radio time, and let them rave. Let them address the D.A.R. in their Washington hall, if they can get an audience. Let them set up a soapbox in front of Independence Hall and holler their heads off. Let them lambast the Democratic and Republican Parties to their hearts' content (both parties need it every...
...magazine like TIME, which habitually and unreservedly mangles the English language, to lambast the Times on the grounds that it is "unreadable," is downright ridiculous...
...should Elmer Davis, head of the Office of War Information, be the man to lambast Boss Petrillo? He had a farfetched excuse: several hundred radio stations which broadcast war information cannot keep going without "canned" music. But the truth seemed to be that Elmer Davis was becoming a sort of Presidential deputy, in charge of putting the people's thoughts into official language. This would be a useful development...