Word: obloquy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...forced revelations concern matters that are unorthodox, unpopular, or even hateful to the general public, the reaction in the life of the witness may be disastrous . . . Those who are identified by witnesses and thereby placed in the same glare of publicity are equally subject to public stigma, scorn and obloquy...
...Sword of Damocles. What had this kindly father done to deserve the obloquy of his own sons? Until he was 18 years old, Vyvyan never knew. By his own devices and the careless words of elders, the little boy learned to suspect in time that his father had been sent to Reading Gaol, but for what crime he could only guess unassisted-and the guesses were dark beyond belief. Cyril, the elder, got a glimmer of the truth from a glance at newspaper headlines, but even he felt it necessary to keep the facts from his brother. All the boys...
When the police finally stopped the fighting, some 50 persons (including 24 cops) had been injured by punches, kicks, scratches, bites, falls, or blows inflicted by undetermined objects. Next day Shigeru Yoshida called on Emperor Hirohito to apologize for the obloquy that Japanese legislators had brought on their country. In the Diet, the upper house passed the police bill by standing vote, the Socialists abstaining...
...ever thought otherwise? Who has ever considered Claus stupid or sinister? Or a criminal? No unspoiled infant, surely. But men of great power and responsibility, judges and prelates, have pulled this once-proud figure to depths of shame and obloquy...
...case of Chicago's Joseph Beauharnais,* founder of the "White Circle League of America, Inc." He had been convicted for printing scurrilous material about Negroes, under a 1917 Illinois law that makes it a crime to hold up any "race, color, creed or religion to contempt, derision, or obloquy." Last week, in a 5-to-4 decision, the Supreme Court upheld the Illinois law, marking the first time it has sanctioned such statutes. Wrote Justice Felix Frankfurter for the majority: "If an utterance directed at an individual may be the object of criminal sanctions, we cannot deny...