Word: scold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eager, but Disappointed. At the start of the week, his throat was raw. He had almost shouted himself out of voice. The hourly swabbings of his throat only helped make his temper raw. At a midnight stop at Ogden, Utah, he interrupted his blistering attack on Congress to scold and silence a group of noisy boys who had climbed a nearby tree. In San Francisco and Oakland he was bitterly disappointed by unenthusiastic audiences and by the absence of crowds along the sidewalks. In Oakland he took it out on cameramen who popped their flashes at him. The camera corps...
...some polling places children presented the proxies of their parents, servants those of their masters. Premier Chang Chun himself had to scold the curious who pressed around to watch him write his choice: "This isn't right. We must vote in secret." But, as the Premier added, it was "the first time." Chinese hoped for improvement. Said scholarly, bespectacled Tseng Chi, head of the Chinese Youth Party: "Perhaps six years from now, at the next general election, we'll know more...
Columnist Marquis Childs, who does not often scold the Truman Administration, had an acid suggestion for the Attorney General: "If Clark looks around suddenly at a Cabinet meeting, he is likely to find a culprit or two within arm's length. Two fundamental errors of the Truman Administration contributed to the price spiral. One was the repeal of the excess-profits tax. The other was . . . the encouragement of labor in demanding additional...
Iraq's excitable, blustering Fadhil Jamali likes to scold Americans about Zionism: "The trouble with you Americans is that you think it is a case of a people without a homeland moving into a land without a people." Saudi Arabia's cool, ceremonious Prince Feisal al Saud is the only Arab head delegate who wears flowing native abaya and qutra. His Egyptian colleague, suave, man-of-the-world Mahmoud Hassan Pasha (whose country contests with Lebanon the intellectual leadership of the Arab world), often wears sports clothes to U.N. sessions. The head delegates and their staffs...
...have built up a good relationship to my people, although many are opposed to me as a Catholic priest. But I tell them the truth whether they like it or not. . . . Only one thing I never do: I never scold them. I still have the impression [that] many are receptive to the ideal of democratic moral regeneration...