Word: upbraids
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sadat had always despised the Russians, partly because Egypt frequently had to grovel for its arms shipments and partly because of the stony way they treated him personally. "They are crude, tasteless people," Sadat says. In 1972 he decided to upbraid them with a bit of theater. He put on his Commander in Chiefs uniform, complete with medals and sashes, and summoned the chief Soviet adviser. "Who do you see sitting in front of you?" Sadat asked. When the Russian expressed bafflement, Sadat screamed at him: "I am Field Marshal Joseph Stalin, that's who! If those spare parts...
HERSH shows clearly how the self-serving attitudes of the Peers commission members mirrored those of the officers and men of the Americal. Peers would not allow Vietnam war opponents to testify, and one of the commission members--who went out of his way to self-righteously upbraid the officers of the Americal--is now himself accused of "failure to comply with written directions in connection with the murder in 1969...of at least five Vietnamese prisoners and electric torture of a sixth...
...statement implies that he has had some recent trouble behind the scenes in running the University. Students, faculty, and administrators generally upbraid him the most for his lack of personal contact with them and his handling of the April 9, 1969 University Hall occupation. Private pressures built to the point where Pusey felt his generation's time...