Word: scold
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...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...
...National Highway Users Conference, Mrs. Emily Post, doyenne of U.S. manners, wrote a 46-page treatise called "Motor Manners." Sample mannerisms: "... A gentleman will no more cheat a red light or a stop sign than he would cheat in a game of cards. A courteous lady will not 'scold' others raucously with her automobile horn any more than she would act like a 'fishwife' at a party...
Fisher said that he "had attempted to serve the HYRC as a 'spokesman' in both the NSA and Student Council" but was refusing any further backing from the Young Republicans because they, while not supporting him fully, still assumed the right to "scold...