Word: chides
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years since have made Mrs. Roosevelt (to the U.S. delegation she is simply "Mrs. R.") a sagacious and useful member in U.N. struggles. When she feels called upon to chide the Russians, she never treats them as baleful bogeymen but simply as naughty-and rather ignorant-boys. She does not hide her amusement at the fact that the most exalted Soviet official dares not speak privately with a Westerner without another Russian beside him to eavesdrop...
Died. Hans Heinrich Dieckhoff, 67, Adolf Hitler's last Ambassador to the U.S.; after long illness; in Lenzkirch, Germany. Distantly related by marriage to Nazi Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, chunky, affable, Roman Catholic Dieckhoff was required, as his first public act in the U.S., to chide Archbishop Mundelein of Chicago for referring to Hitler as "that Austrian paper hanger." After 18 months in the U.S., Diplomat Dieckhoff was recalled by the Führer in 1938 and never came back...
...Since his mother had to get up at 5:30 a.m. to go to work, Freddy's father would serve him breakfast in bed. "Sometimes," recalls the teacher, "he'd be barely awake when he came for his lesson at 2 in the afternoon. I used to chide him for being so lazy while his mother worked so hard. 'Well,' he would answer, 'she likes...
...couple of months ago, Dolores' mother paid the family a visit, heard her grandson chide her daughter: "Mummy, why do you drive alone? You know perfectly well that Don Carlito does not want you to." Said Dolores' mother: "Since when, may I ask, has it been a tutor's business to give orders to his employer?" There was a family showdown that night. Dolores said that she would marry Ossorio. Don. Juan, head of the Spanish Bourbons and last court in family matters, was consulted. His verdict: absolutely impossible. Said Dolores: "I don't care...
Some doctors suspect that about three out of every four U.S. women are frigid, i.e., get no sexual satisfaction. In the current Journal of the American Medical Association, Gynecologist William S. Kroger of Chicago and Endocrinologist S. Charles Freed of San Francisco chide U.S. gynecologists for not paying more attention to the problem...