Word: chide
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...Southern Presbyterian Church is a gently, insistently conservative group, both theologically and politically. Its 928,056 members, 99% white, officially support racial integration, applaud those of their churches that practice it, do not chide those that don't. They see merit in testing the literal Bible by scholarship-yet many quietly hold that every word is true. They hearken more closely to Calvin than do their more numerous Northern Presbyterian cousins. They anxiously question the need to lose their identity in ecumenicism. Last week, though under the pervading pressures of world Christianity to become a bit more liberal, they...
Chou En-lai went on to chide Khrushchev for his "public denunciation" of Albania: "To openly display in the enemy's presence disputes between brother countries cannot be regarded as a serious Marxist-Leninist approach, and can only distress friends and delight our enemies...
...that she would marry him, if he really wished it. The Director of the Imperial Household Board was dispatched to the Shoda house formally to request Michiko's hand for Akihito. The news was joyfully received by most of the press and public. Editorials took the opportunity to chide some palace officials for cloistering the imperial family, for having tended in recent years to lower a "chrysanthemum curtain" between the throne and the people. One newspaper boldly declared: "Michiko-san may be a commoner, but it is the crown prince who is getting the best of the bargain...
...TIME reported, did not chide...
From more than 100 Sunday newspapers last week tumbled fat and gaudy magazine supplements devoted to a subject that to many dailies was once a bad word: TV. Newspaper publishers still fret over the economic challenge of TV, and critics chide it for challenging the intellect too little. Nevertheless, on the theory that 37 million TV-owning families can't be wrong, newspapers today are giving TV far more space than they gave to movies in Hollywood's heyday-just as the average family spends far more of its time with TV than it ever spent in movie...