Word: reprimand
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...command module were being taped and later piped to the ground. After discovering the coverup, Chief Astronaut Alan Shepard, who had modestly stretched NASA rules by smuggling some golf balls along on his Apollo 14 moon trip, took to the microphone in Mission Control and issued a mild reprimand. Replied the Skylab commander, Marine Lieut. Colonel Gerald Carr: "O.K., Al, I agree with you. It was a dumb decision...
...that he gives the girls new balls at about the same time they would get them in a match, thus preventing any bad habits that might develop from hitting dead ones. The sessions are serious. The moment the younger Evert gets the least bit sloppy, her older sister will reprimand her with a sharp, "Oh, Jeanne...
Politics is an ancient, usually harmless, and sometimes honorable human game. However, when it is the excuse for crushing human lives when merely a reprimand by society is needed, it becomes a hideous piece of cynicism...
Despite the renewed tempest, General Arrupe declined to reprimand Hebblethwaite or dispatch fresh apologies to Benelli. Any action, said a Jesuit spokesman in Rome, would have to be taken by Hebblethwaite's superiors in England. The reaction was not surprising; many officials in Arrupe's own curia are known to concur quietly with Hebblethwaite's complaint...
...some fifty years, they still do not know each other completely; the husband reproaches his wife for sleeping at night when he has been restless, and gets the same pettish reprimand in return. But they seem to grow closer and closer, even during their few days in Tokyo, in the face of a new world and the exclusion from the lives of their children. They reach a perfect unity as they side by side gazing out to sea, lonely misfits at a holiday resort, so attuned that even their kimonos match...