Word: reprimands
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...some fifty years, they still do not know each other completely; the husband reproaches his wife for sleeping at night when the has been restless, and gets the same pettish reprimand in return. But they seem to grow closer and closer, even during their few days in Tokyo, in the face of a new world and the exclusion from the lives of their children. They attain a perfect unity as they sit side by side gazing out to sea, lonely misfits at a holiday resort, so attuned that even their kimonos match...
...unusual reprimand of one of the nation's most prominent doctors is in response to Knowles' continuing criticism of his colleagues. He has frequently taken advantage of newspaper and television interviews to question physicians' ethics. Last February, in the Intellectual Digest, he charged that some 30% to 40% of American doctors are "making a killing" in medicine, some by performing "incredible amounts of unnecessary surgery." Though no one can pinpoint the amount, many doctors agree that there is much superfluous surgery. Incomes are high; the median is more than $40,000 a year, while some private practitioners...
...only by sheer luck. The "defense" argued that because Gallo and his bodyguard were unexpectedly not facing the door, the assassin had to open fire before he was sure which of the two was Gallo. The Gambinos, in a rare display of leniency, let the killer off with a reprimand...
...were perhaps less a tribute to the author's literary skill than to the authenticity of his material. Wambaugh was working a rich contemporary vein: the life of the Los Angeles police force, on which he served for more than a decade. Although Centurions brought him an official reprimand for failing to submit his manuscript for advance approval, Detective Sergeant Wambaugh is back with another police novel, turned out between tours of duty...
...does have a $3,000,000 Israeli-built personal jet, which he has used to make a pilgrimage to Mecca, among other trips. He rockets around Kampala at breakneck speed in his own Jeep. Last year a military policeman warned him against speeding; Amin cheerfully accepted the reprimand. ''It just goes to show," he said, "that I am not above...