Word: reproacher
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...woman social worker team to investigate. With the arrival of these visitors from the small, strange planet of Social Science, the evening rockets into hilarity. The woman (Sandy Dennis) is a girl with dew-behind-the-ears charm and a tendency to fountain into tears of self-reproach at her own unsociological impulses: "I hate Raymond Ledbetter. and he's only nine years...
...first items in the quiz was a Crivelli Pieta, and the trick was to tell what part was original and what part had been restored. Except for certain slick parts, most of the crackled surface seemed beyond reproach. It might even have fooled the Fogg, had the man who donated the painting not also given two photographs of it. one taken in 1907 and the other in 1909. The earlier photograph showed that before restoration about half of Christ's body had peeled...
...mind the numerous penny sweets of her childhood; the higher-priced candy of today is better, but the sugars remembered are best. The development areas of today give the second-class citizen a better chance to succeed in the modern world, which is based on respectability. Congratulation, not reproach, is in order for the men responsible...
...long ago, that Army Secretary Stevens was demonstrating his utter incapacity for responsible administration before McCarthy's subcommittee and 20 million television viewers. Scott McCloed was running wild through the State Department ruining the careers and reputations of hundreds of its employees without a word of reproach from the Secretary of State. Chiefs ticked off their subordinates in public, and refused to support them against attack from the outside...
...Cuba badgered the conference into deploring the U.S. base at Guantanamo, but no mention was made of the Soviet garrisons in Hungary, Poland and East Germany, or of Red China's occupation of Tibet. There was much space devoted to the sins of colonialism, but no hint of reproach for the brutal neocolonialism that crushed Hungary and swallowed up the Baltic states of Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania...