Word: reprimanding
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...childhood was strictly governed. His father, then Duke of York, kept his sons at arms' length except when he felt it was his duty to reprimand them. "Bertie and I," wrote elder brother Edward, "came in for a good deal of scolding." Years later, watching his spirited daughters splashing through a swimming lesson, George remarked in wonder: "I don't know how they do it. We were always so terribly shy and self-conscious as children...
...California on duty in San Diego, Chaplain Sporrer said only that "military authorities" had ordered him to keep quiet. The Navy had also sent him a letter of admonition, which is tougher than a letter of caution, but a notch nicer than a letter of reprimand...
...radio station. Nine years later Egk wrote an opera, The Magic Violin, which has become part of the regular repertory in German opera houses. Impressed, the Berlin State Opera hired him as a conductor. Under the Nazis, Egk's career throve pleasantly enough, although he got a stiff reprimand in 1938 for "working along the lines of 'Kulturbolschewist' Kurt Weill." He had a brief wartime success with a ballet, Joan of Zarissa, which was produced in occupied Paris. After the war, Egk went through the denazification wringer and was finally cleared...
...lumpy mattress and a single blanket left him aching and cold. By prison rules, hands had to be kept outside the blanket, and a naked light bulb was always trained on his head. Any attempt to tuck in frozen fingers or face away from the light brought a barked reprimand from the guard at the peephole...
This week the patrolman, still smarting from a reprimand, was back on the job. Tests showed him out of immediate danger,* and his name was withheld by his cautious employers. But suspicious Richlanders, who thought they might have visited him or shaken his hand, were already asking for a personal swabbing down and an atomic housecleaning of their...