Word: reprimand
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...does overt action like boarding and capturing a U.S. Navy ship in international waters [Feb. 2] constitute not less than an act of war and demand not less than immediate retaliation? Our enemies probe our military might knowing full well that the only retaliation forthcoming will be a stern reprimand...
...sneak into the operating-room observation gallery and grabbed some stills; NBC attorneys got a temporary injunction prohibiting him from "selling or disposing" of them. A doctor who had brought his subminiature camera into the operation also took a few pictures but handed them over to Barnard after a reprimand...
...violence and underdevelopment with a curious mixture of weariness and undisguised excitement. Fifty wars in the underdeveloped world since World War II, 40 coups in the last two years alone, deaths, casualties--to Curle, now a professor of Education and Development at the Ed School, each figure is a reprimand and a challenge...
Instruct & Reprimand. Apprised of his tough ways as principal of Roslindale High, six teachers asked out even before he arrived. Since then, the new headmaster has got rid of 23 more. "You instruct, inspect, reprimand and relieve from duty," explains O'Leary, whose World War II stint as an Air Force colonel has given him a fondness for military metaphor. "A good school needs administration, perspicacity and guts...
Rather, they accepted the reprimand as a "cause for self-reflection...