Word: scold
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...long arm of litigiousness has reached out and touched Barbara Bush. Former CIA operative and current agency scold Philip Agee is claiming Babs' 1994 autobiography, A Memoir, falsely blames him for the murder of Richard Welch, the CIA's chief operative in Athens. He's suing for $4 million. Ex-First Dog Millie, who wrote a book with Bush, is not named in the suit...
...raise heated debate over what words we can say on television, and over what types of photographs can hang in museums. We scold our public figures furiously for their infidelities and like to take the moral high ground. But there is a fundamental lack of substantive respect for the concept that it is necessary and right to deal honestly with one's fellow...
...hearings. But he had barely completed his testimony when he corrected himself, moving up by one week the time at which the White House knew the targets of the RTC's investigations. His assessment of the Clinton team's overall performance was a gentle scold: "I have concluded that there was no violation of any ethical standard, but that it would have been better if some of the issues that arose had been handled differently than they were...
...ambitions to write something that would last -- forever, no less -- as a thank-you letter to the U.S., where I have been so well treated. Months passed in this way, until the idea began to collapse under its own weight. She did not scold. But, she said, in her best down-feathered voice, "Don't let's talk anymore about that book you're never going to write...
Ford said the man continued to scold congregants until he was removed by Ford and Ralston Haynes, a former non-resident tutor at Adams House...