Word: reproaching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
...liberal Senators. Their nominations raise basic questions about the role of Congress in choosing Supreme Court Justices. Is the Senate's job merely to say whether a President's choice has the intellectual qualifications and experience to sit on the federal bench? If so, Scalia and Rehnquist are above reproach. Both men, declared Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole last week, have "the experience, the background, the integrity, the intelligence and the right stuff...
...Sally Ride, a member of the presidential commission investigating the Challenger disaster, was the first to speak out publicly. Until the agency solves its safety problems, "I'm not ready to fly again," said Ride. "I think that there are very few astronauts who are ready." A more pointed reproach was made public Saturday, when the Houston Post printed a memo sent to space-program officials by Chief Astronaut John Young on March 4, citing safety compromises on shuttle flights dating back to October 1984. The list, said Young, "proves to me that there are some very lucky people around...