Word: reproaching
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Drifting without an identity of her own, Tolstoy fell prey to the nemesis of sexist marriage. The holy imperative to devote one's soul to another human being whose primary devotion is to work brought possessiveness, analysis, self-reproach and despair. As if this weren't enough, Tolstoy's perceptiveness forced her to see the vicious source of the entire fiasco--woman's exclusion from meaningful work...
...control and disarmament must be courageous and wise. The members of that leadership must be able to exercise their own independent judgment and not let others intimidate them. Who, in our own country, are the "others" who can intimidate the leadership? They are the military. I don't reproach the military for that-they're only doing their job. The military is made up of men who are ready to sacrifice their lives for the sake of their motherland. However, leaders must be careful not to look at the world through the eyeglasses of the military. Otherwise...
Solzhenitsyn retorted in his detailed statement that "for 29 years Vitkevich did not ever reproach me for my behavior at the investigation-but how convenient it is now to have him join the general chorus." The reliability of Vitkevich's belated accusations appeared questionable. Experts noted that handwritten notations were never permitted on the record of a prisoner's interrogations. Moreover, Soviet Leader Nikita Khrushchev ordered the destruction of the dossiers of all rehabilitated prisoners in the early 1950s...
...another: "As a taxpayer, I resent my tax money's being used to pay secret service men to accompany the Governor on his love trysts. Who was watching the shop while the Governor was pursuing his ladylove? I always thought any man who smokes a pipe was above reproach...
...many Americans it served as a reaffirmation of faith in a nation that had grown accustomed to self-reproach. After their long ordeal, the P.O.W.s had every reason to greet freedom ecstatically. But they had no need to offer profuse thanks to the country that had sent them to war. If they could so spontaneously pour out their love of country, then why should their fellow countrymen who had stayed home in safety and affluence be despairing? The return of the P.O.W.s was a tonic for America. "I just hope we can help America join closer together," says Air Force...