Word: reproached
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...summoned Amerasia witnesses to Manhattan in high secrecy. Last week, after 16 hurried days of sifting-admittedly too little time for an exhaustive inquiry-the jury ended its 18-month term by deciding that the Government's investigations and prosecution of the Amerasia case had been above reproach. The jury was shocked that the Communist-line magazine should have had in its office 1,700 Government documents, all classified and some top secret, but it concluded that any delays in arresting the six Amerasia suspects were understandable, and that the prosecution of only two defendants was all that could...
...Negro baseball team, travels in an old bus that doubles as a hotel and restaurant on long hauls through Jim Crow territory. Then Dodger Boss Branch Rickey (Minor Watson) offers him a contract with the Dodgers' Montreal farm team. Rickey's terms: Robinson must stay above reproach while proving himself as a hitter, fielder and base runner; he must turn the other cheek to the inevitable abuse of the crowds, the rival teams and his own teammates. A poorly written script suggests but hardly exploits the dramatic conflicts and personal anguish of Robinson's hard-won success...
...which, both sides indicated (as always), would be as crucial as any in U.S. history. Politics came first. The primary consideration was not so much passing bills as creating issues which could be presented persuasively to the folks back home. The strategy of the Republicans was to blame and reproach. The strategy of Democrats was to explain, defend and duck-or to demand laws they couldn't get and blame the Republicans for not getting them...
...Sparks. The U.S. synagogue is no longer a community of believers, Herberg says. "This means that, in a very, basic respect, the synagogue of today is no longer the synagogue of the entire Jewish past. There have always been unbelievers . . . but in former times these people . . . were held in reproach by themselves and their fellow Jews. Only since the last century, and perhaps only in the past generation or two, has it become 'normal' for ... synagogue members to believe in and observe nothing in particular. This is surely something portentous...
...sank his and Hogan missed. In grim self-reproach, Hogan stayed on the green and practiced the putt again & again -never once making it. That shook the little man whose gimlet glance used to be enough to make rivals break out in hot & cold sweats...