Word: reproacher
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...lighter and tougher than men. They can stand acceleration, shock, vibration, spinning, heat, cold and radiation. Best of all, they do not demand to be brought home alive. They transmit to earth all the information that they have gathered in space: then they die as streaks of fire without reproach or protest. Or they land on the moon or Mars and stay there, reporting faithfully until their radios fade...
...basis for this reproach is an article in the February issue of GP, a magazine for family physicians, published by the American Academy of General Practice. In it, Dr. Alfred S. Evans of the University of Wisconsin cites his clinical experience with a group of amorous Wisconsin students, and compares his findings with the West Point study of Colonel Hoagland. He notes thus, slyly: "I'm embarrassed to say that the Wisconsin student is engaged in this type of osculatory activity almost as often as the West Point cadet...
...Reproach turned to anger when a U.S.-built Chinese Nationalist patrol bomber overflew Burma, apparently trying to drop supplies to the fleeing Kuomintang forces. Burmese fighters attacked it, and it crashed over the border in Thailand. But in the course of the battle, one Burmese fighter was shot down, another damaged. The Burmese government brought the body of the dead pilot back to Rangoon for ceremonial burial. Burma sent off a protest...
Though Eyre's "drawings" deceived London for quite a spell, the museum itself was in this case above reproach. Twice it turned down the opportunity to buy Eyre's Southwark Fair. But in the end Forger Thompson won out anyway. The museum became so intrigued by his work that it bought up the whole Eyre collection as an admirable example of an artful forger...
...citizens no longer want to be informal. They are content with the condensed (and often distorted) truth of the newsmagazines, and with the extraneous entertainment features that clutter the pages of modern newspapers. If you believe in supply and demand for the press, the editors and publishers are beyond reproach: they are giving the public just what it wants...