Word: reproach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...West Germany from 1945 until today. "Ohne mich" ("Count me out") was, and is. their slogan, and their withdrawal represents an active personal judgment on the corruption of most of their countrymen. The postwar emigration of many such Germans, says FitzGibbon, represents a permanent loss to Germany. The reproach of the count-me-outers, alas, has not kept the convicted German war criminals-including SS General Kurt ("Panzer") Meyer, found responsible for the murder of Canadian prisoners of war-from becoming heroes to extremist groups in the post-Hitlerian Reich...
...mean to reproach you, or even to give you the impression that I think you'd care if I did. But I do believe that the writer of the story on Vidal and me turned in a remarkable performance. "When they fence on television or in type, bitchiness erodes their polish and learned discourse dissolves into tantrums." The man who wrote that sentence doesn't know the difference between a tantrum and a psalm. The writer then goes on to stick into my mouth an unpleasant sentence I never wrote (the author of that sentence is clearly designated...
...wrote his view of the press for the 1969 Britannica Book of the Year. The result, described by L.B.J. as "the musings of a man who has seen the press only from the open end of the gun barrel," is an intriguing blend of accusation, sympathy and self-reproach...
...billion in subsidies, two-thirds of which goes to farmers with incomes of more than $20,000. The fact that Mississippi's Senator James Eastland's plantations receive $157,930 a year for not growing cotton - while some of his constituents go hungry - ought to be reproach enough. Ironically, the Agriculture Department is also spending millions to improve big-scale Southern commercial farms, thus driving Negro farm laborers out of jobs and on to Northern welfare rolls. The Government should do far more to help and retrain those laborers - in the South - thus saving more money and needless...
...Detroit riots, Johnson quashed that kind of talk. And when the Kerner Commission last year made ambitious recommendations for helping the Negro-findings that could easily have been mistaken for earlier Johnsonian rhetoric -the President pouted in silence, apparently construing his own commission's work as a reproach to himself...