Word: admonish
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...breath. When he is arrested, his main effort?and his lawyer's?is to get the case thrown out on some legal technicality, and he often succeeds. In a San Francisco police squad room, the cops toss darts at an unusual board. Its rings are labeled: Investigate further, Admonish, Cite, and the bull's-eye is Complaint withdrawn. Police Lieut. George Rosko sums up the whole juvenile process: "It fosters the kid's belief that he can beat the system. He goes through the court, comes back to the neighborhood, and he's a hero...
...clutches a protractor in one hand as though he has forgotten it is there, and his mind seems to be somewhere among the stars he is studying. The library where he ponders has no formal checkout desk. No librarians remind borrowers to fill out checkout slips, which simply admonish borrowers to return books as soon as they can. Casual discussions in various offices around the Center concern satellite launching, photon sorting, and ways of measuring gravity waves. A bumper sticker on one office door says cryptically, "Black holes are out of sight," while a door in the basement carries...
...lost her bite and runs only on enthusiasm. When she jumped the gun on Nashville and reviewed it before it had been released in its fully-edited form, even dignified Vincent Canby--a man above these intrigues if ever there was one--found space in his Sunday column to admonish Kael for her gleeful hastiness...
...scores of cities in the U.S. have passed a wide range of laws that prohibit smoking in places as varied as elevators, museums, hospitals, theaters, stores, buses and subways. Now, however, the antismokers seem bent on controlling all public "breathing space." In offices and waiting rooms, desk plaques admonish...
...latest confrontation, an Ohio church court found Oberlin's Rev. L. Peter Beebe guilty of breaking canon law by letting women with disputed ordinations celebrate Communion. As in the similar case of Washington, D.C.'s William Wendt (TIME, June 16), the court recommended that the bishop merely admonish Beebe, but it also proposed that he be suspended if he did it again. In effect the five judges backed Beebe by calling the Episcopal ban on women priests "outrageously inequitable and humiliating," and with a bizarre flourish they said that restraints on Beebe's conduct should be lifted...