Word: reproaching
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...best performance is Kathryn Humphreys' Aline. Her singing is excellent, her appearance enchanting, while her acting is beyond reproach. The only complaint that can be made is that her outstanding performance makes Thomas Myers' Alexis look poor in comparison while in reality he is not that bad. He looks like an ill-at-ease student at a military academy, an appearance not suited to a part that calls for somewhat more vigor than he is able to muster. In his duets with Miss Humphreys she consistently steals the scene...
...himself. With Bill, venture capital is a question of whom to borrow from. Rich Uncle Simon seems a logical choice ("If you think that money isn't enough to make a person happy, you've just never met my Uncle Simon"), but Uncle Simon refuses with the reproach: "My boy, you want to learn how to shave on my beard...
...Reproach for a Comrade. In an attempt to force Sukarno into action, the colonels dispatched a mission of their own to Tokyo. The delegation was headed by Colonel Joop Warouw, Indonesia's military attache in Peking, and Lieut. Colonel Ventje Sumual, commander of the rebellious Northern Celebes area. Warouw sought out Sukarno in Japan's state guest house. Warouw's account of the interview (as relayed by Sumual): "I told him to get rid of the Reds or quit, himself. He reproached me for these words, and asked if I had forgotten our past comradeship. I reminded...
...Pointed Reproach. In Columbus, Ohio, Rudolph Smith told the stranger who asked for a cigarette that he did not smoke, got stabbed...
...matter in good time. As a member of the scientific fraternity, I should say that although we have done little to dispel the idea that researchers can invariably come up with the right thing at the right time, this is far from true; scientific methods are reasonably above reproach, but those who use them are subject to human shortcomings. The simple principles by which we have so far lived are now inadequate. The difficulties of formulating new principles might be neatly resolved by a Second Coming, but rather than wait for that, we had all better try to think...