Word: scolding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite a cerebral hemorrhage two years ago, Tobey continued to scold and thunder for the ways of righteousness. Last week in his Senate office, just two days after his 73rd birthday, he collapsed with a heart attack. In the hospital a few hours later he died peacefully, in his sleep. "No man need fear God or the devil," he once said, "if he tells the truth...
...flood of inquiries from groups who wanted to start them in other cities. And he could go to the kids for testimonials. One little girl told a playmate: "You ought to get your mother to go to the Guidance Center. Since my mommy goes there, she doesn't scold me any more...
...gambler who is a member of Alcoholics Anonymous. Full of bubble and bounce, he has the ready grin of the seasoned meeter-of-people. He puts on no airs, and has an immense interest in human beings, young and old, whom he treats with fatherly didacticism ("I should scold you very severely," he told a girl of a few minutes' acquaintance...
...plum. The Cold Peace boys assume that because an equilibrium between East & West is planned, it is already here. The fact is, said Ridgway, that NATO's strength in Europe is woefully below "minimum military requirements." Everybody seemed to assume that of course a SHAPE general had to scold like that...
...attitude was a far cry from its feelings at a similar conference in 1932. Then, weakened by a depression and with her exports lagging, Canada fought for preferential trade treatment within the Commonwealth. Now, riding a record boom in domestic production and foreign trade, Ottawa spokesmen are inclined to scold the sterling countries...