Word: reprimand
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...misfire; last week it ended with a bang. In February, Robinson nearly wrecked his baseball career when he pulled a gun during a fracas in a Cincinnati restaurant. Faced with up to three years in prison, Robinson pleaded guilty to carrying a concealed weapon, got off with a reprimand and a $250 fine. He arrived at spring training to confront fuming Manager Fred Hutchinson. Said Hutchinson: "That was a stupid thing to do." "It was," agreed Robby. "But sometimes a man learns from his stupidities...
...admitted hero of U.S. conservatives, Goldwater has been unfairly charged with the sins of the right wing's political cranks, whom he has tried to steer toward moderation and toward a place in the G.O.P. But Goldwater critics could easily make hay of his refusal to reprimand the John Birch Society, even though Barry has publicly tut-tutted the overzealous Red-hunting of his friend Robert Welch, the society's founder. Of the society, Barry says: "I only know one chapter, the one in my home town. They are the finest people in my community...
Rohan was let off with what amounted to a reprimand for believing that the Queen would agree to a midnight rendezvous-the most believable part of the whole charade. Although the countess defended herself spiritedly, biting the turnkey, and seducing (in all probability) the governor of the Bastille, she was found guilty. Her punishment was to be stripped naked in public, beaten with rods, branded on both shoulders and then imprisoned for life. But probably with official connivance, the countess escaped from jail. She traveled to England (where her husband, with or without Rohan's knowledge, seemed to have...
Tycoon Kirby keeps a close watch on Alleghany's nickels and dimes. He often hefts the mail sent by subordinates to see if they have used unnecessary postage, shoots thema stiff A.P.K. reprimand if they have. As a hobby he collects, appropriately enough dime novels, e.g., the Liberty Boys, the Nick Carter series. But when it comes to houses, Kirby acts the tycoon. For fishing he keeps the Gaspé camp; for winter quail hunting he has a ten-room Civil War Plantation house on a lake in South Carolina; for football weekends he bought Chateau Chavaniac, a replica...
...With a reprimand for his overzealous clergy, Puerto Rico's Roman Catholic Archbishop James P. Davis last week strategically retreated from the island's church v. state battleground. In a statement issued in Chicago Archbishop Davis declared that no Catholic who voted for Governor Luis Muñoz Marin's Popular Democratic Party would be subject to canonical penalties, thus flatly contradicting Puerto Rican priests who were prepared to deny the sacraments to those who had voted against church instructions until they confessed their...