Word: reprimanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have broken up a dinner-dance, disrobed six of the town's debutantes, sacked the home of the-French governor-under the impression that it was a brothel-and put 38 soldiers in the hospital, there is never a hint of malicious mischief in their fun. A soft reprimand from Fonda is sufficient to calm the most riotous of them...
Bevanite Harold Wilson wanted only to administer a simple reprimand for bad parliamentary behavior. Labor's "keep calm" moderates were for formally censuring Nye, but not for expelling him: to do so during an election year would be to court defeat. Clem Attlee himself leaned to the moderates' view. Attlee's usual response to Nye Bevan's bull-like forays into vital issues-e.g., Formosa, negotiations with Russia, gibing at the U.S.-is to adopt as much of the Bevanite position as he can, and thereby undercut the Bevanites' appeal...
...correct academic or social misdemeanor. But when it is unexpectedly employed to prevent something that hundreds of local homeowners do in front of their houses every night--an act that the University has, in practice, permitted for years--probation is degraded to a position slightly higher than a reprimand for jay-walking...
...formed a beer stein, the content of which gradually diminished. The Harvard Band, aroused by the challenge them formed a champagne bottle, which tipped and poured into a thin-stemmed glass complete with bubbles. For this they received a tremendous ovation, a protest from the WCTU, and a mild reprimand form the administration which felt than an 'Indian' on the field should not have reeled so realistically...
...board of trustees of Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, voted in May to reprimand an S.M.U. English professor who has been waging on one-man public campaign of anti-semitism for the past several years...