Word: reproacher
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...distressed by the worldwide condemnation of Israel for the destruction of the Iraqi reactor. Yet I prefer reproach to expressions of pity had Israel suffered an atomic bombardment...
...have known if their work was related. Yet, when Mendel's work was revived in 1900, his experiments dealt Darwinism a nearly fatal blow. The popularity of Darwin's thought was already on the decline when Mendelism came into favor, but the monk's researches seemed to influence greater reproach for his theory. In 1907 a biologist named Vernon Grant had written a book citing dozens of objections to Darwin's theory and offering 24 alternate explanations of evolution. Many of his ideas sprang directly from the studies of Mendel. It seemed as if the work...
...debilitating end of the Boer War, three Australian soldiers are brought to court-martial. The charge: murdering some Boer "civilians" they have captured in a vengeful raid, along with a German missionary whose death has provoked a murmur of international reproach. The soldiers' commander, Lord Kitchener, wants to make an example of them so as to disarm world opinion about his unedifying conduct of a nasty...
Last month Tom Winship, president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, chastised his colleagues because the campaign "ain't no box office hit, and the press deserves some of the blame. By and large, we are letting the candidates set the agenda." Winship repeated the familiar self-reproach that newspapers weren't raising significant issues. To which Paula Hawkins, a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate from Florida, answers: "You never win an election on issues. The only people who want to be specific are editors and journalists. The people out there are tired of someone...
...only 15 months." And some women faulted Cunningham for not being more sensitive to the delicacies of being a female executive. Said Lynn Long, a vice president of Houghton Mifflin, the Boston publishers: "A woman executive can protect herself simply by exercising great discretion and being above reproach." Discretion, however, has not been a conspicuous commodity at Bendix in recent weeks...