Word: reprimand
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...thinking. Thorez made unorthodox statements such as "One thing happened in Russia, another will happen in France. We'll have our French revolution in our own French fashion." Three times Thorez had been slapped down by the Kremlin for nationalist tendencies. Each time he took his reprimand like a good Kremlin offspring, welcoming the blows, enthusiastically agreeing that they were for his own good...
Thanking you gives me an excuse to reprimand you for a not too accurate statement. In your review [in the same issue] of Poems by Christopher Smart you say that "[Editor Robert] Brittain's efforts may rescue Smart from his long imprisonment in a literary footnote." It is true that Smart had to wait a long time to receive his proper praise (and appraisal) as a highly original poet. But, after almost two centuries of neglect, Smart has been discovered and rediscovered in the last dozen years. I refer, for example, to the ten pages devoted...
...After getting a "mild reprimand" from his bosses, Driver Coyne-a calmer man-is back...
...group of unlucky freshmen who had their bursar's cards grabbed by Cambridge police during the Class of 1953's riot last Thursday will be let off with a reprimand, the Administrative Board decided yesterday...
Akahata, Tokyo's Communist newspaper, denounced the circulation of Shiga's memo as "subversive." At first Shiga declined to make a public retort. "Intraparty affairs," he said, "should be solved within the party." Last week Akahata repeated and amplified its reprimand; it also printed a terse apology from No. 3. Then, within their central committee, the comrades rehashed the issue in hot & heavy argument. The solution: a statement reproving Shiga but leaving him still in his influential post. Japan's lesser comrades looked on, baffled and bewildered by the complex top-level schism...