Word: reprimand
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...heel digs, nerve taps, hops, jumps, heel cramps and flash finishes. Even that formidable array, however, has failed to dampen the enthusiasm of housewives who want to lose weight, businessmen who seek exercise and kids who revel in the chance to make shattering amounts of noise without risking a reprimand...
Roustabouts or technicians, all are effectively imprisoned on their tight little island. No alcohol, not even beer, is permitted on board. Fighting means immediate dismissal; lateness to a post a severe reprimand. Always, the threat of death or serious injury is with the crew. Two months ago, about 100 miles away on the gulf, a fiery blowout on one platform killed six men and destroyed 20 operating wells. Several veteran roustabouts have fingers missing from accidents. Last September, a roustabout was killed when a 600-lb. section of pipe fell and crushed his skull...
...cuddled Grub lots." In aping the apes, however, she was flexible. Young chimps, when they are naughty, usually get a quick bite on the hand, and then a consoling hug. Jane has never bitten Grub, but she does give him "a reassuring hug after a quick reprimand...
...family lived in New York City, where young Bickel spent most of his spare hours in the public library. "The ethos in our family was not to make money but to conserve it," recalls Bickel, who said that an overdue library book brought his father's sternest reprimand. Bickel breezed through City College of New York as a Phi Beta Kappa student, then moved to the Harvard Law School, where he became a law review editor...
...member of the U.S. hierarchy. He was the only Roman Catholic bishop to march with Martin Luther King at Selma. He was also the only bishop to join a group of Catholic intellectuals in signing a 1967 open letter criticizing U.S. policy in Viet Nam-thereby earning a tough reprimand from Vagnozzi. He publicly endorsed Milwaukee's Father James Groppi and California's Cesar Chavez. Then, in 1968, his appearance on an NBC television special about the U.S. Catholic Church occasioned a critical resolution from the executive board of U.S. bishops...