Word: reproofs
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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...
...wild bird was shot in 1900. The last of these, a female named Martha, died in 1914 at the age of 29. Her body was frozen into a 300-lb. cake of ice, and shipped to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, where she still perches under glass, a plumed reproof to man's destructiveness...
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...