Word: reproaches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
Billy Wilder's ingenuity and cleverness are beyond reproach. But he has more, much more; he has virtue. At the end of the movie, after what has seemed to be pure fantasy and games, he manages to include a few scenes in which Tony Curtis, who has all along been playing poor Marilyn for a sucker, discovers suddenly that deep down where it counts he loves her after all, and does the noble thing. These scenes call to mind the "Love Slave" movies in which the hero finally escapes from his immoral torturers and flees to his faithful fiancee...
...people of Congo were incompetent to govern, Kanza argued, "the first reproach must go to those who trained us." The Belgians ruled the Congo for 80 years without educating a single Congolese doctor or engineer. "Only eight years ago," said Kanza, "I was the first to leave Congolese territory to go through higher education." He might have pointed out that the actual casualties are far fewer than the headlines would suggest. Those killed were mostly soldiers from both sides and numbered twelve whites and 79 Congolese...