Word: instruct
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...broadcast boomeranged back to Swedish Radio Chief Henrik Hahr. Hahr cautioned Szepesi that "sport is one thing and politics another," cabled Budapest to instruct their reporter to restrain himself to sportsmanlike commentaries. Budapest cabled a curt "reporter instructed...
...both the authority of tradition and the excitement of artistic rebellion. That was not too surprising. The chairman of the jury had lucidly described the sculptors' dilemma in a letter sent to each of them before they began work. "I would like to urge you to guide and instruct," he wrote, "to lead strongly in these artistic matters. But it is obvious, I feel, that the beneficial effect of your leadership will be much greater if the sculptural image which we offer is not too much of a jolt...
...instructed the jury to consider only four questions. Did Cole's defiance of Congress bring him into "public hatred"? Did he "offend" the public? Did he "prejudice" his employers? Did M-G-M forfeit the right to break his contract because it waited a full month to fire him? Said Yankwich: "If the studio knew, when Cole came back from Washington, what his conduct had been there and nevertheless continued to reimburse him, then I instruct you that M-G-M then waived its right to take action against...
...When he realized that I didn't know Boston," Gurland explained, "he tried to instruct me downtown. I must have driven for over 45 minutes, with that gun nudging me all the time...
...instruct with an entirely different approach," said Francis X. Sutton, junior fellow who served as assistant to Professor Parsons. "You can't take for granted the little things you can expect of a Harvard audience. For instance, not a single one of our pupils had ever heard of Betsy Ross...