Word: admonish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...These glimpses into the adult world often give the child far greater insight than his parents realize. In the opening scenes of an enchanting new Australian film, Careful He Might Hear You, a wide-eyed six-year-old boy lies awake as his anxious parents discuss his fate and admonish each other for speaking too loudly, afraid they will let him hear too much. This preoccupation with sheltering the boy from life's cruel realities forms a central theme of the story of a bitter custody feud between two adoptive mothers, who want the boy for entirely different reasons...
Upon last week placed a notice in the weekly Law School Advisor, telling students not to tear down posters. But she refused to admonish the Police Department saying that this was a police affair...
Jaruzelski's tough talk may have been intended to mollify a jittery Kremlin as much as to admonish his own countrymen. Indeed, one of the main goals of the congress was to persuade the Soviet Union not to intervene in Poland to seize control of the faltering government. Moscow, for its part, seemed to be taking a wait-and-see attitude toward the Polish liberalizations that it had tried, and failed, to discourage. After sending Kania a terse congratulatory telegram upon his reelection, omitting the customary expression of confidence, Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev cabled somewhat warmer greetings to Warsaw...