Word: chide
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with. That made official policy a tactic that many producing countries have been following all winter anyway. Finally, as if to add insult to financial injury, the OPEC representatives went out of their way to try to put the blame for the increase on the industrial countries, which they chide for not curbing both energy consumption and the inflation that is eroding the value of their petrodollars...
...once said, "always something" to slap you in the face, to dash a little cold water at you before you start out on a hot summer day. The slap this year came from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who journeyed down from exile in Vermont to pick up an honorary degree and chide America for flabby morals and a lack of purpose. The national press took note, as it usually does when people start talking about morals or anything else at a Harvard Commencement, and even the First Lady took the time to say she thought America was still strong, still moral...
...then there's the voice. It's a Buggsy Moran kind of bark, and he uses it to alternately chide and cajole his players, and to pick apart the opposing team's game from the sidelines. And occasionally, just occasionally, he'll do a little ref-baiting...
...hired Moynihan on the basis of the piece. Moynihan there proposed to aggressively defend the U.S. from third world attack, centering on Great Achievements of international liberalism--like the multinational corporation, he wrote--and blaming third world government for their own economic troubles and lack of freedoms. We should chide those in Africa and Asia, Moynihan wrote, reminding them in a tried-and-true American way that putting liberty before equality is the way to do best by the latter...
...galvanized people by presenting not just rock songs, but the glimpse of a whole other kind of life. His counter-sexuality had the electrifying effect that the counter-culture had lost. As Dylan could moralize in '66 about Mr. Jones and his closed mind, so Bowie in '73 could chide the prudes and exhort his followers in "Changes...