Word: reproofs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Knew It was much better written, naturally more authoritative, a rich mine of precepts-into-practice for students of warfare. A superior war book of a different kind was the late John Gilbert Winant's Letter from Grosvenor Square, a moving account of wartime faith that was a reproof to postwar disillusionment. Other solid achievements: the first two volumes of Samuel Eliot Morison's massive History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, Professor William Langer's approving examination of Our Vichy Gamble, Major General John Deane's illuminating story of U.S. difficulties with...
Churchill's reproof in the form of an invitation did not sit well in Washington -no better than Stettinius' reproof in the form of abstention had sat in London a week before...
...Duke of Argyll, 72-year-old, 20-titled, elf-seeing, Gaelic-speaking laird of Inveraray, Scotland, received in absentia a court admonition (public reproof carrying no fine or sentence). The trouble started when 79-year-old Town Clerk Robert Sutherland Corrigall stopped by with some Department of Health recommendations for cleaning up the ducal estate. His crusty Lordship listened carefully, politely shook hands, then gave his caller a good caning followed by an offer to throw him in nearby Loch Fyne. The Duke refused to appear in court, sent word that, after seven weeks of reflection, he had apologized...
When Randolph Paul had finished, the Senate committee piled insult on reproof. It asked him to supply a Treasury proposal for a sales tax-one kind of tax which he has always opposed. As if he had known the worst in advance, Paul fished in his brief case and brought out a sales-tax proposal readymade...
...this was coldblooded, the U. S. at least could not point a finger of reproof, for Americans have long been proud of the exploit of George Washington, who on Christmas evening, 1776, crossed the Delaware and attacked the Hessians who had overeaten and overdrunk. Actually a general Christmas truce is impossible for practical reasons. The Germans, for example, could not be expected to keep their submarines inactive so long as British convoys plied the seas. And to keep their convoys off the seas on Christmas Day the British would have to give up shipping on the North Atlantic...