Word: reprimands
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...hard way) that the coke-and-cloak room in Briggs is a W-V (S) rendezvous ONLY when no member of the USN is in the building. We guessed we were table conversation after that inauspicious morning of the first lecture when Mr. Ashler started us off with a reprimand and that dark brown look. But now after a little priming and further acquaintance with Longfellow we promise to be a good class and GIVE...
Last week Wesley Disney's fuse burned down, exploded. The House vote against Franklin Roosevelt's order was more than an ominous reprimand to a President; for Congress, it was an action without modern precedent. Congressional historians could not recall when any other Congress in American history had voted to revoke an executive order...
Newest U.S. air slang in Britain, where it is always received with enthusiasm and prompt use, is "sweating out." This usually means stewing in one's own juice, as "sweating out" a reprimand from a commanding officer. But it also has less serious meanings. Airmen in England sweat out a chow line (i.e., wait for food) or a routine assignment like a training flight...
...direst administrative punishments (i.e., short of court-martial) likely to be imposed for unmannerly "criticism": public reprimand, a lowly detail, or ignominious return...
Despite labor's near-unanimous demand, at week's end it seemed likely that the worst that able, bad-tempered Jerry Land could expect would be a White House reprimand for not submitting his speech to the Office of War Information in the first place...