Word: scolding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...These poor kids," Hart said, showing the most feeling he would emote in his entire visit to Boston. Later he would even scold a press aide for yelling at some of the children. They had run up the staircase, thereby fouling the flow of the well-orchestrated media event. "It's their house," Hart sternly said...
Describing the Southwest Conference, the Dallas Morning News headlined LEAGUE OF ILL REPUTE. It was no small scold in a year when athletic chicanery in other college athletic associations has prompted court cases involving charges of fraud, illegal firing and point shaving. But the Southwest Conference, where four of nine universities are on probation or are being investigated by the National Collegiate Athletic Association, has a special claim to dubious distinction: Southern Methodist University in Dallas, whose six N.C.A.A. probations in the past 28 years make it the reputed all-time leader among penalized schools. In mid-November, while under...
Such "infamous" policy decisions, declared Meese, amply prove that some < judges have been using the Constitution "as a charter for judicial activism on behalf of various constituencies." The proper role for the judiciary, he said in a climactic scold, is to guard the Constitution, not tamper with...
Within the memory of our oldest citizens, most Americans lived and died in small, close-knit communities. Residents knew each other, by name or by sight. Anonymity was unusual. A mother in the park was unafraid to scold the mischievous child; she knew his parents. A suspicious-looking stranger in town--or on the block--drew vigilant stares; the community knew its members and its mores...
...fact, Amis is quite the scold. His Rabelaisian comic gift cuts savagely at the patchwork of relativism and materialism that passes for modern social fabric. The novel's loutish hero, John Self, is a grotesque victim of life in the fast lane: "I hate people with degrees, O-levels, eleven-pluses, Iowa Tests, shorthand diplomas," says Self. "And you hate me, don't you. Yes you do. Because I'm the new kind, the kind who has money but can never use it for anything but ugliness...