Word: reproofs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...never fear. Chekhov will always be in the best of hands: his own and those of audiences who can never resist his appeal for co-authorship or deny the stinging reproof of their own desolated lives...
...outset it was Nicklaus who seemed about to place even further beyond reproof his reputation as the greatest contemporary golfer when he jumped out to a three stroke lead over Watson. He went nine under par by birdieing the fourth hole, known as Woe-be-tide, a par three where the tee shot must carry over a treacherous cove to a green nestled in the dunes...
...Ford Foundation announcement, Board Chairman Alexander Heard cautioned that "we ought to guard against pushing the panic button too hard or too soon." Yet there are those who think that Ford is already pressing it too hard. In what seemed to be a gentle reproof, Dr. John Knowles, president of the Rockefeller Foundation, commented: "Organizations such as ours have a magnificent opportunity in times of depression or turmoil to stand firm...
Crossed lines like this denote uncomplementary transactions, and bode trouble. For example, the Adult-to-Adult question about the cuff links might be answered with a sharp "Where you left them," a reproof that comes from the wife's Parent and is addressed to what she sees as the inept Child in her husband's personality...
...make the case the first international feminist cause. To further it, women in five U.S. and seven foreign cities staged demonstrations on the date originally set for the trial. When 50 protesters gathered on the lawn of the Portuguese consulate in Boston, Vice Consul Carlos Nunes relayed a curt reproof from his boss, Consul General George Freitas: "The world would be a better place if each person would mind his own business." To which one woman responded, "And you are minding the business of the three Marias-which is why we are all here...