Word: obloquy
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Response to Pressure. From the beginning, the case has been shrouded in obloquy and obfuscation. An initial county grand jury charged only the seven Panthers. Then a federal grand jury, investigating whether the civil rights of Hampton and Clark had been violated by police, declined to indict anyone, but did report that-contrary to police claims-there was evidence that only one bullet had been fired by the Panthers compared with at least 82 by police. Shortly before the federal grand-jury report, Prosecutor Hanrahan's office had abruptly reversed itself and decided to drop the Panther indictments because...
...year-old boys worked in the mines of Pennsylvania, and girls of six helped run the mills of the South. The regular work week ran as high as 84 hours, the pay from $1 to $3 a week. Each time the workers tried to organize, they earned only public obloquy and a growing list of martyrs. The right to organize was not firmly and finally established until the 1930s, when more than 100 working men and women were killed by police or by company thugs during strikes and hunger marches. The decades since then have been almost unnaturally peaceful. Militancy...
...Wallop's relief does not last long. Her own son Osgood, a struggling writer in New York, publishes a novella entitled The Duchess of Obloquy. Sandwiched in its entirety between Emma's own narrative, it moans the familiar tale of the castrated son. Through its absurd parodic details, however, De Vries engineers a nimble satire of contemporary attitudes on sex, race and Women...
...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...