Word: reproaches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...still king of the coal miners. "All we got, we owe to him," said a miner with finality. "Twenty years ago we worked 20 hours for $2; now we get $15 for eight, that's what." But the king, it was plain, was no longer above timid, hesitant reproach. It wasn't too safe to criticize him openly: the old men didn't dare risk being blackballed by the union; they were too near pension time. And a coal miner's wife in Cinderella, W. Va., who wrote a letter to the editor protesting that John...
...felt that the traditional scores for the play, composed by Henry Purcell and Thomas Augustan Arne, although musically above reproach, were more appropriate for an eighteenth century production of the Shakespearian tragicomedy...
...second and last volume of The Diaries (the first appeared last year) reveals the crescendo of this torment, as it filled tuberculous Franz Kafka's own final years, up to his death in 1924, at 40. His father, a stolid and self-possessed businessman who was a living reproach to the introspective writer, was always at the center of his thoughts. He loved his father and admired him; he also feared and hated him. The "bond of blood too is the target of my hatred; the sight of the double bed at home, the used sheets, the nightshirts carefully...
...putting pressure on Dutch Catholics to prevent a settlement with Indonesia. The Times attributed the story to "a source close to the Foreign Ministry." Next day the meticulous Times corrected its error. It wasn't "a source close to the Foreign Ministry"; it was "a source beyond reproach...
...acting of the entire cast is above all reproach. Michele Morgan, as the blind girl, and Pierre Blanchar, as the Pastor, are ideally cast and give sensitive, intelligent performances. No less impressive is Line Noro, who plays the wife...