Word: reproof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Time and again, witnesses were allowed to contradict themselves and change their stories without reproof. Sample: Thief Willie Manoch testified that Jungschlaeger brought an arms-laden ship into Djambi in May. The defense replied that, due to low tides, the river port could not be entered in May. Said Manoch: "Oh yes, that's true. It was in October.'' Soothed the prosecutor: "One can make a mistake." Jungschlaeger himself pointed out that the Americans, Dutch and British were supposed to be involved in this "secret" operation. "And why then," he cried, "am I standing here alone, like...
...seized a microphone and panted at the crowd: "I had a lot of things to say, but they will have to wait until a better time. I thank you for this great reception, but you have spoiled part of my happiness by this confusion." Unable to hear this gentle reproof because the mike was dead, the crowd at last dispersed, tired but happy. As Nehru sank into a comfortable seat in President Prasad's car, the police gathered up the casualties and carried them away on stretchers beneath an archway inscribed with the glowing words: "Welcome, Great Messenger...
...sent his blast at Khrushchev to Milan's Communist L'Unità. and seemed hurt when L'Unità refused to publish it. Finally, he put it in his own Trieste Il Lavoratore. The reaction in the ranks of Italian Communists was sensational, but the reproof that followed was sensationally mild. Italy's No. 2 Red, Luigi Longo, scolded Vidali for having expressed "the wrong attitude, probably due to hurried and superficial evaluation." Longo probably dared go no further because 1) a good many Italian Communists were as horrified as Vidali at Khrushchev's cringing...
...month tenure as Premier. The count showed 289 votes for, 287 against, with 33 abstentions. The French press called the result a "suspended sentence," and many a man in the street concluded that the Deputies, acting in psychic accord, had engineered the two-vote margin as a stinging reproof to Laniel. Bringing down Laniel could have caused new elections, and the Deputies' own seats would have been in jeopardy. Three Gaullists who had intended to abstain changed their minds and voted for Laniel...
...During those two months, I had more freedom than I had in all the 21 years in the party. I felt, for the first time in my adult life, that if I had an opinion about something I could express it any way I wanted without fear of reproof from someone higher up." She believes that she would have made no open break if the party had not stubbornly attempted to force her back into the Communist routine. "I was beset on all sides...