Word: reproof
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Plumed Reproof. The pigeons had no legal protection. Their gregariousness was an instinctive need, and as their numbers dwindled, so did their will to live. Small surviving groups would desert their nests, leaving new-laid eggs untended. Eventually, they refused to nest...
When one close friend after another was hauled off to his death during the bloody purges of the late 1930s, Ehrenburg never said a word. Nor does he offer a word of reproof today...
Editor Fired. With eyebrows raised all over Colorado, and a TV-radio editorial reproof by Denver's KLZ ringing in his ears, President Newton finally got to work a fortnight ago and fired Althen from his job as editor. Up sprang student picket lines, with Mitcham bearing a derisive sign: "Senator, I will not silence them!" But the faculty senate, meeting behind doors under police guard, voted confidence in Newton...
...Inter-American Peace Committee. The committee accused Cuba of converting itself into a Red satellite, of attempting to subvert its neighbors, of violating human rights by executing and imprisoning political dissenters. It would be a hard report to ignore for those Latin American nations which want only a mild reproof for Cuba and no sanctions...
...wrote in an opinion reprinted recently in the Atlantic. "Nor is he to use his place to push before the public his name, his views, his personality." Yet Judge Wyzanski is noted for the breach of his own advice, and just last February his bench manners earned him scathing reproof from a U.S. Court of Ap peals. "It is clear from the record before us," wrote the appellate court in remanding a case to Wyzanski, "that the confusion and conflicts in these witnesses' testi mony were due in no minor part to the trial judge's . . . overzealous participation...