Word: obloquy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Front's first public response was to be expected. An N.L.F. broadcast called the bid "a crafty trick," and in Paris both Hanoi and N.L.F. negotiators heaped scorn on Thieu's offer. For all the obloquy, however, no spokesman for either group flatly refused the offer of private talks, and Western sources privately described the statements as a matter of routine propaganda, entered for the record before the real talks begin in secret-if they have not already...
Adams wrote later of his part in the trial: "The Part I took in Defense of Captn. Preston and the Soldiers, procured me Anxiety and Obloquy enough. It was, however, one of the most galant, generous, manly and disinterested Actions of my whole Life, and one of the best Pieces of Service I eyer rendered my Country. Judgment of Death against those Soldiers would have been as foul a Stain upon this Country as the Executions of the Quakers or Witches, anciently. As the Evidence was, the verdict of the Jury was exactly right...
...honorably ineligible for the struggle of life." At Christ Church College, Oxford, Home could not earn his blue at cricket, never matching his brilliant 66 on a sticky wicket for Eton against Harrow. He caught Neville Chamberlain's eye and became his parliamentary private secretary-only to suffer obloquy later for having ridden with Chamberlain through the cheering crowds at Munich. In the 1945 Labor landslide, he even managed to lose his family's "safe" Parliament seat in Lanarkshire. In 1951, he went off to the musty House of Lords after acceding to his father's title...
...Most self-quest novels are assembled with interchangeable parts, and The Forger can be assembled and disassembled rather rapidly. Part 1 (colloquy): "What do you want out of life, Rufe?" Part 2 (ecstasy): " 'Yes, yes,' she said, 'I want you. Take me, Rufus.'" Part 3 (obloquy): "Nobody believes in trees, or love making or beauty or ugliness or God." Part 4 (philosophy): "All we can do is touch hands, all of us, and be gentle with each other, as strangers on the same earth...
...about Pogo, the next she is braining Hero Harvey for ripping open her blouse (with cretinous whinnies of "Open sesame!"). And where it was right for the hero to blow his brains out in the book, it seems pure melodrama for him to rage off in the film to obloquy and oblivion on his trusty green motorcycle...