Word: admonishment
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...father's respect for words, and used them freely, furiously and all too literally. While attending Millbrook School in New York, he appeared uninvited at a faculty meeting and proceeded to complain about his teachers' politics-too liberal, of course. Even his father felt constrained to admonish him: "I like very much your attitude of having strong convictions, but you will have to learn to be more moderate in the expression of your views and to express them in a way that would give as little offense as possible to your friends." That was about the only piece...
...letters printed below were written before the University decided, on Tuesday, to put 74 of last week's demonstrators on probation, and to admonish 171 others...
...usually started his days with an assault on a pyramid of mail, meanwhile giving orders over his intercom system and fielding rapid-fire phone calls: "Hello. Yes. No. Tomorrow. Fine. Goodbye." Then, dictating memos over his shoulder, he would go off on his rounds, turning up onstage to admonish a stagehand ("Don't smoke on our stage, please"), switching off the lights in sub-basement storage rooms, climbing into the uppermost rafters to check on a special staging effect...
...hectic was Percy's extracurricular pace that his grades suffered (he graduated with a C average), and University Chancellor Robert Hutchins was once moved to admonish him: "You're exactly the kind of student I'm trying to keep out of the university." But in later years Hutchins recalled Percy as the "richest boy who ever worked his way through college." He had a point: in his senior year at the university, Chuck grossed $150,000 from his business enterprises, netted...
...archaeologist, I appreciate the publicity your cover article gave the field, but as a practicing pollen analyst, I feel obliged to admonish your Science editor for his reference to "fossilized grains of pollen." The connotation of this statement is that pollen grains become petrified with time, as the remains of a fossilized plant or animal, and so are preserved as stone. One of the wonders of biology is that the exterior surface of most types of pollen grains is amazingly resistant to chemical action. For millions of years, pollen which has avoided destruction by becoming buried retains its original organic...