Word: opprobrium
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...vitality, country -the things writers used to spit at." Besides this, she explains, "I try to write in language people can understand. Not primer stuff, but simple language and thoughts everybody has." One of Author Ferber's prime annoyances (it has been bothering her for years) is the opprobrium which she feels is attached in the U.S. to the term "best-seller." "What's wrong with writing a book that lots of people buy?" she demands. "My God, there's no point in writing if you don't sell your stuff." Of current writers, she most...
...problem for many a U.S. tycoon is how to stop making money, what with taxes, the opprobrium attached to high earnings in wartime, and all. But when a tycoon has used extraordinary ingenuity for many years in devising ways & means to make the money roll in, he cannot easily or suddenly disengage himself from the golden flow...
...front" to make a last-ditch stand in the Madrid area. "Our fate is at stake and it depends entirely upon ourselves to come out successfully from the present situation through our own will power and determination. Either we shall all save ourselves or sink ourselves in extermination and opprobrium," said the proclamation...
...Strikors were scornfully called "academists"(a term of opprobrium) because they thought that a university was a place to study even in revolutionary times. One method of combating the "academists," known as "chemical obstruction," was to toss crudely constructed "stink bombs" in the lecture halls...
...Progressive" critics and opponents of Greek and Latin studies base their arguments upon the supposed fruitlessness of learning a language of no practical value. The term "dead" language has become a form of opprobrium and the study of Latin and more especially of Greek has been allowed to lapse into discard. While this shift in attitude is understandable and perhaps, in the light of changing needs, condonable, for those who wish to study Greek life and letters the omission of this popular course is a serious and disheartening blow...