Word: scold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...make of a portrait he had don6 in Paris. At the time, Maria was miffed at Jefferson for not having answered her last letter. "She is angry," Trumbull jokingly told Jefferson, "yet she teases me every day for a copy of your little portrait-that she may scold it, no doubt...
...make a universal tragic figure of a common scold is no ordinary wordster. Irishmen know Michael McLaverty, 42, a teacher in a Belfast parochial school, as one of their finest contemporary writers. U.S. readers, because of the strong local coloration of most of McLaverty's stories, have been slow to take...
...Reds began to apply pressure a year ago. First the nuns were expelled from their hospital and a laboratory assistant was put in charge. Next, the children were cross-questioned to get "charges" against the women. ("Do these foreigners make you study too hard? Do they ever scold you?") At last, they were turned out of their residence and packed off, while former students, patients and friends were assembled under guard to chant: "American imperialists-Asia doesn't want you -Go home...
...discharge that duty, the U.S. needs allies-as clean as possible. But it needs allies-clean or dirty, just as Britain and the U.S. needed reactionary and tyrannical Russia against Hitler. U.S. opinion tends to whitewash some allies (as it whitewashed Russia in 1941-45) and to scold ineffectually at others (e.g., China). Either by wishful whitewashing or reckless scolding, the U.S. can weaken the anti-Soviet front and encourage Soviet aggression...