Word: reprimands
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...letting Sun off with little more than a reprimand, the commission said it took account of his distinguished fighting record and his "admission of past mistakes and self-censure." Leniency toward Sun also served to reassure U.S. and overseas Chinese opinion, which holds Sun in high esteem and might have wondered at the implications for Nationalist China's future had so able, senior and "Western-minded" a leader been tossed overboard. Much cheered by the verdict, General Sun called last week on Vice President Chen Cheng, the commission chairman, to offer his thanks and to remind the Vice President...
...with a "severe reprimand," Wintle was packed off to a staff job in the Middle East. But soon he was turning up at the bar in Cairo's Shepheard's Hotel, sipping a favorite gin concoction called "Suffering Bathwater," sporting an impressive beard, and dropping remarks like "Lovely weather on the Riviera last week." He had launched a career as a spy, impersonating a Vichy officer in occupied France. Caught and jailed in Toulon, Wintle sharply ticked off his guards for their slovenly appearance. He went on a 14-day hunger strike until they agreed to shave...
...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...