Word: reproachfully
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...zoologists' intention is, of course, beyond reproach. To trace man's ancestry to the ape and the chimpanzee is a noble purpose. And this purpose they have made explicit wherever possible; they have placed a mother monkey, for instance, with her stuffed infant over her knee...
...poet with few disciples. Today's bright young men look to the intricate, mannered, literary methods of T. S. Eliot and W. H. Auden for their models. They grudgingly admire Frost as a kind of 19th Century relic, resent his commanding popularity, and smart under the reproach: "If Frost can make himself intelligible...
...Polynesian race, killed many and driven the survivors off the good pasture lands. In 1856 Dr. Isaac E. Featherston, a member of Parliament, wrote: "The Maoris are dying out. Our plain duty, as good, compassionate colonists, is to smooth down their dying pillow. Then history will have nothing to reproach us with...
...summoned Amerasia witnesses to Manhattan in high secrecy. Last week, after 16 hurried days of sifting-admittedly too little time for an exhaustive inquiry-the jury ended its 18-month term by deciding that the Government's investigations and prosecution of the Amerasia case had been above reproach. The jury was shocked that the Communist-line magazine should have had in its office 1,700 Government documents, all classified and some top secret, but it concluded that any delays in arresting the six Amerasia suspects were understandable, and that the prosecution of only two defendants was all that could...
...Negro baseball team, travels in an old bus that doubles as a hotel and restaurant on long hauls through Jim Crow territory. Then Dodger Boss Branch Rickey (Minor Watson) offers him a contract with the Dodgers' Montreal farm team. Rickey's terms: Robinson must stay above reproach while proving himself as a hitter, fielder and base runner; he must turn the other cheek to the inevitable abuse of the crowds, the rival teams and his own teammates. A poorly written script suggests but hardly exploits the dramatic conflicts and personal anguish of Robinson's hard-won success...