Word: reproofs
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...right up to the mawkish speech he gave as he left the White House two steps ahead of the sheriff. For politicians of the soft and pampered boomer generation - "well-meaning little men," as TR once called the type, "with receding chins and small feet" - TR is a perfect reproof, and they respond by embracing him. Clinton placed a bust of the Rough Rider on his desk. Bush moved TR's portrait to a prominent spot in the Cabinet room, and to many an Oval Office visitor he proudly points to his desk as the same one Roosevelt used...
...embattled former Federal Emergency Management Agency Director, is clearly one such specific individual whose guilt was exposed in the wake of the response. And, most importantly, the federal government’s shockingly slow and disorganized response to a disaster of such enormity is worthy of the strongest public reproof. With enough blame to spread all over, any attempt to spin it solely in one direction is misguided...
...against them. Despite over 20 years of persecution, the Prophet’s victorious return to Mecca was unmarred by violence. Before a fearful crowd of Meccan leaders, this supposedly vengeful Prophet proclaims in the words of Joseph to his brothers, “This day, there is no reproof against you!” He even renounces the claims of Muslims upon the property confiscated from them in the years of persecution, and makes the chief of his conquered enemies in Mecca the governor of the city...
...Bacause Fargo has reportedly accepted the panel's recommendation, Waddle will face alternative, non-criminal penalties, possibly including a letter of reproof and the reduction of his retirement benefits...
...Lawton would recommend a rank outsider, a horse sent off at 15-1, which would proceed to stun the field. With each improbable pick, Lawton gained in stature, until his tips assumed the weight of ex cathedra pronouncements, to be ignored at one's peril. My grandmother's favorite reproof to her husband, to be intoned didactically: "But George, you didn't have it? You know, Lawton gave us the four...