Word: reproachers
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...since Indiana's Frank McKinney became Democratic National Chairman, newsmen have been deeply interested in his connections with Frank McHale, Democratic National Committeeman from Indiana. Reason: McHale recommended McKinney to Harry Truman. Later, in a press conference, McHale described his man as "like Caesar's wife-above reproach." Last week, an interesting Mc-Kinney-McHale nugget was turned up by the New York Herald Tribune's Jack Steele. It concerned a business deal the two had with Promoter Frank Cohen, who headed Empire Ordnance Corp., a World War II munitions combine...
...hates her first husband's family because they "interfere" with the way she is raising her daughter; actually, she hates them because their natural friendliness is a living reproach to her unnatural hostility. She hates the hired boy on Martin's farm because, she says, he is a foundling bastard; truth is, she hates him because Martin loves him, because she needs every last breath of Martin's approval to keep her bubble full-blown...
Johnson seized the opportunity to justify his own record, and to reproach the Administration. Going into one session, with two Republican Senators, he said: "Ask me why I was fired." Someone did. Said Johnson: "My answer is truthfully, under oath, I don't know. I don't know to this...
From Alexander the Great's victory at the Granicus (334 B.C.) to Gettysburg and on to the Battle of Midway, military commanders have often been criticized for failing to "exploit the retreat"-that is, for not pressing after a beaten enemy. No such reproach could be made against Lieut. General Van Fleet and his Eighth Army last week. When the battered Chinese Reds ran out of steam in the second phase of their futile spring offensive, they acted as though Van Fleet might be ceremonious and give them a breathing spell. Instead he attacked, and when the Reds withdrew...
Butter wouldn't have melted in Ilva's mouth. Cooed he: "Within the peace movement there are people who are for the [West German] Bonn regime, and people who are for the Berlin [Russian] regime. The council will not reproach the Bonn regime for being antiCommunist. If they take internal measures which don't please this or that member of the council, that is their business. But when they undertake negotiations to build a new Wehrmacht, that goes against humanity...