Word: objectional
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...utterly innocent as possible. And he does his best to make friends with members of the political group that has taken offense at his words. Innocence is a key word. The learned eyes open widely. Palms turn outward. And he gains sympathy. This happens every time he becomes the object of a new outrage. It has become a semi-annual dance. The beginning and the end are predictable...
...disbelief has turned to anger, not only in Uwajima but throughout Japan. In the first instance, the understandable object of hostility was the American military. The Japanese, transformed into pacifists by a disastrous war, are profoundly suspicious of military institutions, including their own. In 1988 when a Japanese submarine struck and sank a pleasure boat in Tokyo Bay and sailors stood by while 30 passengers drowned, a wave of resentment against the military swept the country. In recent years American service personnel in Okinawa?who make up half of the 47,000 stationed in Japan?have been similarly subjected...
...Winners DRYOCOCELUS AUSTRALIS The real survivor in the outback. Stick insect thought extinct shows up alive and well off Aussie coast NEAR-SHOEMAKER U.S. spacecraft is first man-made object to land on an asteroid? other than Bruce Willis STEVEN SODERBERGH Sorry Spielberg. Filmmaker faces off against himself for the Best Director Oscar...
...while some object to the sale, Buehrens says, on the whole, the response has been overwhelmingly positive...
...sure, they're friendly enough now. But wait until Judgment Day. Then it will be, "Sorry, we seem to have lost your reservation." And from this perspective, the Jewish policy of actively discouraging converts to Judaism starts to seem like "theological arrogance" indeed. At the same time, when you object to noncoercive conversion, it starts to look like the opposite of arrogance: theological insecurity. What are you afraid of? The decision will be made by you or by God, and in either case, there is no ground for complaint...