Word: reproaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...become so stereotyped . . . that a man, if he is to be successful, cannot possibly do or be more than one thing. If he does try to do more, he becomes either superficial or a mere drifter. And I am quite aware that my own experience is open to the reproach of superficiality...
Second Front. Without rancor, Stalin built a good part of his speech around the second front-which "[will come] sooner or later . . . because our Allies need it no less than we do." Gone was the tone of reproach, so clear in Stalin's letter to Henry Cassidy (TIME, Oct. 12). Gone was the insinuation that Britain was harboring in Rudolf Hess a diplomatic agent from Hitler...
...Chicago Maternity Center on Maxwell Street (recently popularized in the movie The Fight for Life), which sends doctors and nurses to women in the slums. He was a man who knew that doctors, like other men, make many mistakes. Whenever a nurse slipped up, he would utter no reproach, but send her a box of candy...
...Superman is now in a really tough spot that even he can't get out of. His patriotism is above reproach. As the mightiest, fightingest American, he ought to join up. But he just can't. In the combat services he would lick the Japs and Nazis in a wink, and the war isn't going to end that soon. On the other hand, he can't afford to lose the respect of millions by failing to do his bit or by letting the war drag...
...difference in adjectives is that pinko is descriptive of political coloration and stinko is just a term of reproach...