Word: scolding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...herself a good student before dropping out of all-black Spelman College. She took to "opening the window" with gusto. When teaching her kids the difference between hot and cold, for instance, she made learning fun by steaming up the sink with hot water, rather than waiting to scold a child for venturing too near a hot stove. "It's all in the presentation," she says with a twinkle...
Thousands of Bostonians, not all of them Greek, stand on the sidewalks of Tremont St. Elderly people chat in groups of two or three; parents buy balloons for their children and scold them for running into the street. A couple of delis across from the park have signs in the windows declaring that they are closed for the holiday; maybe their Greek owners are in line, waiting for fried dough...
...pocket. Lyons and Edwards also allegedly went to Loewen in 1995 after the company lost a bankrupting $500 million civil suit in Mississippi and said they could get the verdict reversed for $2 million. In January 1996 Loewen settled for $175 million. Lyons and Edwards then called to scold Loewen for settling when their influence could have saved the company more money. Even so, Lyons and Edwards demanded the $2 million, claiming they had spent it helping the firm. The company wired $500,000 to a Milwaukee account but asked for receipts before sending the rest. Edwards allegedly called relentlessly...
...genially subversive Franco-Belgian Ma Vie en Rose, the town where Ludo and his family live is cheerily color-coordinated (each garage door is painted a different pastel), but the emotions that the boy's cross-dressing provokes are darker. Everyone goes instantly agog. Wives scold; husbands threaten. Schoolboys turn into bullies, ready to take the natural law into their own hands. The film, directed by Alain Berliner from an original script by Chris vander Stappen, has the scheme of a socially fretful TV movie. Yet at heart, Ma Vie en Rose is a delightful comedy, both in its buoyant...
America's allies often scold the U.S. for demonizing Saddam and needlessly personalizing the confrontation, but there is no question that he has become much more than an irritant. He has withstood all the sanctions the U.N. could pile on him, and thumbs his nose at the idea of being bombed again. His callousness seems to know no bounds. When UNICEF announced last week that a million Iraqi children have suffered from malnutrition under seven years of the embargo, Saddam acted to make their plight worse. He said he was uninterested in renewing an arrangement that allows Iraq to sell...