Word: reproacher
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...Britain may take good heart from the American Civil War when all the heroism of the South could not redeem their cause from the stain of slavery, just as all the courage and skill, which the Germans show in war, will not free them from the reproach of Naziism with its intolerance and brutality," cried Winston Churchill month ago. Vexed, Mrs. Walter D. Lamar, retiring president of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, last week retorted: "That insult to the best part of America shows both ignorance and stupidity. . . ." Hastily Mr. Churchill's secretaries rushed off answers to letter...
...employed to gain the ends outlined in other parts of the Committee's Report. His firing of ten Assistant Professors last spring because the Committee recommended the abolition of the position is a case in point. But here at least, both ends and means must be above all reproach...
...that he had ever attacked Adolf Hitler, or that he had been silent at the accession of Sudetenland, and declaring: "I expressed my thanks to the Führer and ordered thanksgiving services and the ringing of bells for the whole of the Ostmark. I protest against the mortifying reproach that I placed myself in deliberate opposition to the Führer and the nation during those great days of the German people...
...that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour...
...wame is obvious. His paunch has long since passed the embryonic stage and now protuberates in full bloom-a reproach to his brothers and a byword to his friends...