Word: reproacheing
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...State House of Representatives last week resolved that Robert Elliott Burns, chain-gang fugitive and publicist, had plotted "to defame and bring reproach upon the name of a great people" with his exaggerated autobiographical book and cinema...
Soon these officers began to reproach Col. Grove with "leanings toward Communism." Next day he personally handed out to the troops manifestoes which Chile's regular Communists approved with parades and mass meetings. When his brother officers again protested, Col. Grove roared: "If I can't get my ideas across to generals and colonels I'll talk to the sergeants. Dammit, I'll talk to privates...
...rights as a neutral just as loudly as Albert claimed them. Then when the Germans still came on Leopold would have let them pass without the folly of spilling our young men's blood. Our factories would have been busier than ever. Our honor would have been kept above reproach by King Leopold's protests to the Great Powers against what the German Army was doing...
...circumstances there was only one thing to do. That was to convert the term of contempt and reproach into a term of distinction. . . . When the Dutch settlers of New York called their neighbors to the North 'Yankees' they thought they were speaking derisively. But who is ashamed of being a Yankee today...
...until he begins to starve for mother's milk. Only after Bobby has been drugged with bananas loaded with veronal can Tikki be taken from him. When he awakens Bobby realizes his drugged in dignity; no more bananas, no more of any of Man's food for him. Slowly, reproach fully he starves to death...