Word: chidings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Upstairs, TV monitors hang from the ceiling allowing all players to view the automated scoring system which stars little demonic creatures which chide players when a gutter ball is rolled. Although no violence has ever been documented, tempers have been known to flare due to low scores and perpetual losses. The crown jewel of the complex is the second floor pro-shop, which serves as a haven for every bowler's deepest desires. XG vinyl bowling bags ($30.00), canvas shoe bags ($10), handsome hand embroidered Brunswick bowling jerseys ($50) and creme de la creme hand-crafted bowling balls...
...guards and his physician, he swam in the heavily polluted rivers of south China, drifting miles downstream with the current, head back, stomach in the air, hands and legs barely moving, unfazed by the globs of human waste gliding gently past. "Maybe you're afraid of sinking," he would chide his companions if they began to panic in the water. "Don't think about it. If you don't think about it, you won't sink. If you do, you will...
...could, we would then chide her with the example of Christ himself. When a woman anointed his hair with precious ointment from an alabaster box, she was lectured by his disciples for not spending the money on the poor instead. Jesus' famous rebuke to his followers: "Ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always." And Mother would have nodded, recognizing our need to deliver the tributes, to shed the tears, to try to anoint her as a saint. But then she would point us to many of the people who had come...
...arrogance. "Sports are over," wrote Robert Lipsyte, "because they no longer have any moral resonance." What resonates from Jordan's performance in Game 5 was his utter refusal to quit, his willingness to let the team climb onto his weakened shoulders, his jumper over sickness and exhaustion. We sometimes chide Jordan for not being a better role model, for not speaking out on issues of race and exploitation. But that was a pretty good example he set the other night. The game wasn't about Nike or Wheaties or Gatorade--though the Bulls' physician did make a point of crediting...
...transplant, with people in one city waiting months while patients elsewhere can expect them in less than two weeks, the Department of Health and Human Services was ordered to take a new look at who should get to the top of the list. Last spring Carolyn Staley wrote to chide the President about his promise that improving education would be his legacy. Was he aware, she wondered, that he had produced a budget that would cut spending for adult literacy to a level below what it was in the Bush Administration? The next thing she knew, Staley got a call...