Word: opprobrium
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Stung by such signs of opprobrium, Syrian President Hafez Assad evidently embarked on a damage-control campaign by addressing the one issue that could restore some of Syria's image in the West: the 20 foreigners held hostage by Shi'ite extremists in Lebanon. As he has in the past when it served his purposes, notably in the release of TWA passengers hijacked to Beirut in 1985, Assad asserted his authority with the Shi'ite groups and apparently arranged for at least a token hostage release. Waite, whose patient efforts to end the hostage crisis were well known to Syria...
...subsequently, when Joan Bok became an object of general opprobrium, Derek Bok permitted her to take the brunt of the criticism. The president passed up repeated opportunities to describe his role in the affair and assume full responsibility. It was not until Joan Bok privately pointed a finger at him and a reporter confronted him with the story that the truth was told...
Stallone's creation, "Rocky," received the 1976 Best Picture Award and spawned three sequels. However, the latest Rocky picture and the phenomenally successful "Rambo" movies have drawn critical opprobrium and sparked an international controversy during the past year...
...geopolitics. However, the Fundamentalists are fiercely anti-Communist and, for that reason, support a strong military and favor U.S. involvement in the affairs of other nations if it can be justified as opposition to Communist encroachment. Fear of pro-Soviet radicals is the basic reason Falwell would risk opprobrium to support South Africa's present regime. Unlike many other American religious groups, Fundamentalists typically favor an extensive U.S. nuclear arsenal...
Certainly abroad this penchant for cowboy-style diplomacy has proved a recipe for diaster. The Administration waves a big stick to little effect in Central America, while earning the opprobrium of the world for its mining of the Nicarguan harbors. It has bungled relations with our reality of the Soviet gas pipeline. And, through its morally disgraceful policy of "constructive engagement," it has allied the United States with the forces of reaction and racism in Southern Africa...