Word: condemned
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...mother's affair with Miller, played out in a few days with her son as witness and her husband's reappearance imminent, should be easy to condemn, especially by Joe, who loves and misses his father. But Joe blames no one. He watches and remembers, "When you are 16 you do not know what your parents know, or much of what they understand, and less of what's in their hearts. This can save you from becoming an adult too early, save your life from becoming only theirs lived over again -- which is a loss. But to shield yourself...
Anderson and his majority, in a series of midnight "emergency" meetings, told Ackley and me that the board could not tolerate dissent. They pressured Ackley to resign and, when he refused, they called another meeting to pass a measure to relieve him of his duties and condemn his actions...
...important not to just bash ROTC," Dyer said. "Once they've given the military a chance to respond to their concerns, then they can say they condemn the policy...
Earth Day fits into a troubling American pattern of responding to crises with rhetoric and theater. So far, it has been easy to be an environmentalist: one simply has to claim to be one. Just as middle-class voters routinely condemn "welfare" while opposing cuts in the social programs that constitute such spending, a good portion of the voters who claim they would pay for environmental improvements balk when the bill is presented. If consumers truly insisted on cleaner air in their individual buying and voting decisions, Detroit and Japan would vie to deliver less polluting cars, and it would...
...same time, I hope that the incident will not be seen as reinforcing a stereotype of Kirkland House that I have found to be superficial, distorted and largely meaningless. I can only condemn Monday's incident and laud BGLSA for its impressive response with the eat-in on Thursday...