Word: reprimand
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Cliff is a chunky high school dropout whose shirttail flaps in the breeze and whose hair-trigger temper has at one time or another 1) brought him an official reprimand from the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association and 2) cost him a place on the U.S. Davis Cup team. Psychologists would probably trace Cliff's troubles back to his formative years-between twelve and 14-when he played with his sister and "she beat me every time." Says Cliff: "She used to beat me so often that she didn't even want to play me any more...
...Strong Reprimand. One of the people who put him there was a fellow Tory and Diefenbaker's own former Minister of Justice, E. Davie Fulton. Fulton said he first got wind of the affair between Gerda and Associate Defense Minister Pierre Sévigny in December 1960, and informed Diefenbaker, who in turn "strongly reprimanded" Sévigny for his relationship with a "known prostitute with a doubtful security background...
When they got over the shock, the drugmakers reacted cautiously. Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association President C. Joseph Stetler regretted that Goddard's reprimand would be interpreted as a blanket indictment, yet conceded that "nobody in that room wanted to be with firms that were responsible for submitting the data mentioned in the speech." On the other hand, a high official of the Health, Education and Welfare Department, which supervises FDA, found the speech "a good first draft-but a bit intemperate...
...such tenets of the faith as the virgin birth and the triune nature of God. Although Pike has plenty of critics among the hierarchy, they boggled at the thought of anything so drastic and medieval as a heresy trial. Nonetheless, the bishops' theological committee initially drafted a sharp reprimand that cleared Pike of heresy but deplored his habit of expressing controversial doctrinal views in public. When Pike threatened to make a public defense of his orthodoxy, the bishops on the committee had second thoughts and started to work out a compromise. What they wrote was a formal statement aimed...
...electorate that they have not been afraid to walk out of the Cabinet when the Christian Democrats dragged their feet. Many Christian Democrats were so infuriated by the ads that they talked of throwing the Free Democrats out of the coalition-but they relented. No one wanted to reprimand the sinners so severely that they would be tempted to form a coalition after the election with the Socialists instead...