Word: chided
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rolls like a tidal wave of red ink over the Administration and Congress, undermining the dollar, pushing up interest rates, shaking the international monetary system and threatening to put future generations of Americans in hock to foreigners forever. How, whenever moneymen gather, finance ministers moan, central bankers chide, and all stare in horrified fascination. How could America get itself into such a mess...
...Wild Thing" immediately finds himself at odds with the conservative world of baseball. His hair is goofy--spiked high with a razor-cut zig-zag on the sides. His casual attitude toward his appearance causes the manager to chide, "We wear caps and sleeves at this level...
...surprisingly, Odysseus is a bit incredulous when Athena (Leta Fincher) explains it all to him. For a goddess of wisdom, Fincher's Athena seems unduly bloodthirsty, even going so far as to chide Odysseus for his timid revulsion. She's supposed to be that way, says my friend the purist, but this Athena revels in the bloodshed so much that she would horrify Lady Macbeth...
FOOTNOTE: *Weinberger actually distorted the legend of King Canute, who, to chide his sycophantic followers, showed them that the advancing tide paid no heed to his commands...
...lives would be in danger if they talked. Even after Gerhard had left Brazil, and died in Austria in 1978, said Stammer, she feared retribution from his "friends" if ever she went to the authorities. Throughout, Pedro never once threatened her family; he even went so far as to chide Gerhard for his show of force. "He didn't get angry or violent," Stammer recalled. "He didn't seem like a fanatic Nazi. I think he was a cold scientist." Still, the Stammers did find that their guest was imperious with servants, and he often urged the couple...