Word: reproaches
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...trying to disentangle herself from their affair. Within hours, both are dead of gunshot wounds, apparently administered by Theo in a murder-suicide. This event throws the members of the Quick family, their friends and the close-knit society of Mountain City into paroxysms of confusion and self-reproach. What made Theo do it? Could he have been saved, and, if so, who failed...
...Council or the congressional investigation but celebrityhood. Ollie North was made, as Gary Hart was unmade, in less than a week. Only in America can a man be created between two Sabbaths. And not just the man but the cult. The gavel has barely fallen on the last senatorial reproach to North and we already have Ollie dolls, an Ollie video, the "Ollie cut" and Ollie songs (Hooray for Olliewood, Ollie B. Good...
...wrong, because we have spent 5,000 years as a race of rational human beings, trying to drag ourselves out of the primeval slime by searching for truth and moral absolutes. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach. What Moses brought down from Mount Sinai were not the Ten Suggestions...
...throughout Gorbachev's three-day trip to Rumania, the first official visit by a Soviet leader since 1976. It was also the last of a series of outings to the six East bloc countries, whose aging leaders generally regard Gorbachev's reforms with suspicion, seeing in them a subtle reproach to their policies and a threat to their power. Gorbachev had saved the toughest challenge for last. Ceausescu's Rumania is the most rigorously centralized and thoroughly policed of the Soviet satellites. The aging and bafflingly eccentric Ceausescu, 69, has spurned Gorbachev's campaign of glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restructuring...
...years, Syria has escaped Western reproach by carefully covering its terrorist tracks. Circumstantial evidence could be found of Syrian links to dozens of actions, including the bombing of a TWA plane over Greece last April, attacks at the Vienna and Rome airports last December and the bombing of the U.S. Marine headquarters in Beirut in October 1983. But solid proof has been hard to come by, which has allowed Assad to assert his innocence. Just three weeks ago, in an interview with TIME editors, he insisted that "no terrorist acts are carried out from Syria, by Syrians or others...