Word: condemned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...granted all due process of law and was proved a perjurer, proved beyond a shadow of a doubt, proved by evidence that cannot be refuted despite the frantic clutching at the straw of the Hiss typewriter. In large measure Mr. Nixon was responsible for that proof. Way we should condemn him for acting as an effective agent of the rule of law is beyond my poor perceptions...
Which brings me back to Mr. Pickett. Pickett is, so convincing in his conviction that all the world is deceitful, conniving, and generally up to so good, that he is able to persuade a groundling like me--prepared, if not especially eager, to condemn him as his creator does--that, by Harry and St. George, he's quite right. Nearly everyone around him is shiftless and scheming; but this same nearly everyone around him is also far from being the actor he is--and, consequently, where he is diabolically entertaining, the others are often very tiresome in their rhetoric...
...critics condemn her for water-skiing and wearing a bathing suit in public. If their wives looked like her, they would be very proud to have their wives in bathing suits...
Republic partner; many could tell a few Nasser stories of their own. But they were reluctant to condemn the most powerful of the Arab nations. Nasser commands most of the Arab nations' military strength and contributes the lion's share (34%) of financial support for the Arab League, which works from a nine-story building in Cairo on projects ranging from boycotting Israel to Boy Scout jamborees. Said one delegate: "The Arab League cannot exist without the largest Arab nation...
...puritanical pri mate. Enrique Cardinal Pla y Deniel, 84. Archbishop of Toledo, has vigorously stepped in to defend H.O.A.C.; after Franco lashed out at "some exalted priests" for stirring up trouble in Asturias, Cardinal Pla y Deniel allowed his church officials to discipline the erring priests, but neglected to condemn their activities...