Word: reprimand
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Urgent Adjuration. When he came to the subject of Poland, it was evident that Winston Churchill had, in effect, underwritten Russia's Polish solution. He urgently adjured Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk to return to Poland to head the Polish Government, gave the London Poles a sharp reprimand for not having come to terms with Russia sooner. Said Churchill: "I hope Mr. Mikolajczyk will soon return to Moscow, and it will be a great disappointment to all sincere friends of Poland if a good arrangement cannot be made which will enable them to form a Polish Government on Polish soil...
...Talking Coach. The skipper, who got his battered nose "backing up a weak line at Annapolis," indulged in a few periods of silence during that 15 months. But they were mostly when he was in his bunk. In battle and out, he kept up a rapid fire of instruction, reprimand occasional praise. Group Twelve responded to his coaching: the score showed...
...TIME'S sincere apologies to Reader von Rosen and a thoroughgoing reprimand to the Business editor and researcher; TIME should, of course, have said his cousin...
Said General Ike: "Doggone if I'm risking a reprimand." He polished his plate. Later he went on to inspect the kitchens...
Next day, at 5:30 p.m., a spokesman for Allied Headquarters in Algiers issued to appalled newspapermen a masterpiece of "public relations" technique: "General Patton has never been reprimanded at any time by General Eisenhower." Every single word of the denial was true. The sum total was not. In Army language, a reprimand is "an official rebuke administered as a punishment," following strictly defined rules of disciplinary procedure.-To those millions of Americans whose English is not false-bottomed, the denial could mean only that Patton was beyond reproach...