Word: reproached
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Self-Reproach. Next day Hirohito broadcast an Imperial Rescript to his nation: "Despite the best that has been done by everyone . . . the war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan's advantage. . . . Moreover, the enemy has begun to employ a new and most cruel bomb. . . . We have resolved to pave the way for a grand peace for all the generations to come by enduring the unendurable and suffering the insufferable...
Early one morning last week some 70 haggard German soldiers climbed out of a sand pit on the edge of Minsk's ancient Jewish cemetery, whose gravestones glared at them in silent reproach. The Red armies had overrun Minsk four days before, and were now rolling on far to the west, but the 70 Germans did not know that. They thought Minsk was still held by the Wehrmucht. When they started into the city, the Russian garrison mowed them down to the last...
...living reproach to Aristotle, Cherubini and Schnozzola is the Flute Club of New York. For 24 solid years, ever since the bearded, quizzical French flutist Georges Barrère founded it, the sodality has met regularly for the sole purpose of discussing, playing and listening to the flute. A few years ago the club erected a flutistic milestone by presenting the U.S. premiére of Henry Brandt's Concerto for Flute with an Orchestra of Ten Flutes...
...denial was true. The sum total was not. In Army language, a reprimand is "an official rebuke administered as a punishment," following strictly defined rules of disciplinary procedure.-To those millions of Americans whose English is not false-bottomed, the denial could mean only that Patton was beyond reproach...
Undergraduates and University Hall alike, then, can no longer regard disciplinary probation as the badge of a collegiate gentleman or a red flag to be liberally waved. The Dean's office must find some substitute as a warning to delinquent reservists; an intermediate step between the proctor's reproach and expulsion must be found. And on the other hand undergraduates must understand that University rules cannot be relaxed because military standards are rigid. The fact that the consequences of probation are often severe is no reason for its application to be abandoned. Abuse can be avoided only if both Deans...