Word: reproached
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Small Beginning. A happy, prosperous father and farmer, Tolstoy at 35 seemed destined to end up merely as an eccentric squire. But, increasingly, wrote Tatyana, "the question 'What is all this for?' began to torment him." Spells of rage and self-reproach interrupted "an almost bourgeois happiness." He had already published several short stories and novelettes (The Cossacks) and a book of reminiscences (Childhood, Boyhood & Youth); now he yearned for what he called "leisurely work de longue haleine [of a long-winded kind...
...protest strongly the way in which you speak of our beloved King Leopold III of Belgium, when you say "Better to perish in beauty" [TIME, May 10]. The Belgians wish that His Majesty should continue in beauty as was his whole life, faultless and above reproach in the service of his people. Mr. Spaak himself has recognized publicly that the King's conduct has been wholly above reproach...
...will of God be done," said Luigi Einaudi one day last week. He had just been told that he had been elected President of the new Italian Republic. "May Italians never have to reproach me for the pride that I feel at this moment." He had not sought the office. Then he thought of the inauguration to come next day. In consternation he exclaimed: "But I don't have a black suit-only this grey one and my tweeds...
...fact-finding board appointed by the President last January was beyond any laborman's reproach. Its members were fair-minded men, experienced mediators: Dr. William Leiserson, visiting professor of political economy at Johns Hopkins University; Professor William Willard Wirtz of Northwestern University Law School; Chief Justice George Edward Bushness of the Michigan supreme court. It was reasonable to expect that they would give all sides a fair hearing. They took 33 volumes of testimony. Then they recommended some rules changes and the same 15½? increase already accepted by the 19 other brotherhoods. Management accepted. The three brotherhoods defiantly...
...school, Paul-Henri was erratically brilliant. Once, when he flunked an exam, he forestalled punishment by declaring: "I have already administered to myself the full flow of reproach which a boy in my situation usually gets from Papa and Maman" Spaak's culture is essentially French, and his early heroes were French. He was particularly keen on Napoleon until, in his own words, he "became aware that it was compromising for a politician to admire Napoleon too much...