Word: reproacher
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...fact-finding board appointed by the President last January was beyond any laborman's reproach. Its members were fair-minded men, experienced mediators: Dr. William Leiserson, visiting professor of political economy at Johns Hopkins University; Professor William Willard Wirtz of Northwestern University Law School; Chief Justice George Edward Bushness of the Michigan supreme court. It was reasonable to expect that they would give all sides a fair hearing. They took 33 volumes of testimony. Then they recommended some rules changes and the same 15½? increase already accepted by the 19 other brotherhoods. Management accepted. The three brotherhoods defiantly...
...school, Paul-Henri was erratically brilliant. Once, when he flunked an exam, he forestalled punishment by declaring: "I have already administered to myself the full flow of reproach which a boy in my situation usually gets from Papa and Maman" Spaak's culture is essentially French, and his early heroes were French. He was particularly keen on Napoleon until, in his own words, he "became aware that it was compromising for a politician to admire Napoleon too much...
...came. His reason told him that he went perhaps too far according to his previous political views. The revolution necessarily was accompanied by much profiteering and injustice which Masaryk loathed so much. Then came the anniversary of his father's birth and Masaryk had to read many letters of reproach and condemnation. Many of his friends, especially those from the West, did not try to understand him. They simply rejected him. And so, in a minute of great mental contradictions, he took to the fatal decision...
Please God. Almost in one breath Runyon could bid the world be gay ("This [is] the best show in town") and sonorously reproach its gaiety ("There were men . . . and women . . . standing chin-deep in . . . this bloody trial and giving some offense to high Heaven, it seems to me, by their very presence"). When nine-year-old Lorraine Snyder enters the courtroom, Runyon deftly massages the hearts of a million mothers ("She was, please God . . . a fleeting little shadow . . . and she stood looking bravely into [Justice Scudder's] eyes, the saddest, the most tragic little figure, my friends, ever viewed...
...firmly believe this; and I also believe that without his concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better than the Builders of Babel: we shall be divided by our little partial local interests ; our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and bye word down to future ages...