Word: upbraid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate is not only one of the world's most exclusive clubs but a club whose members are expected to step out-side for epithetical exchanges. Despite such restrictions, Indiana's Republican Senator Homer Capehart rose one evening last week and in mounting anger began to upbraid one of the handful of Senators present, Oregon's Democrat Wayne Morse. With some 20 gawkers lolling in the galleries, Capehart cited a reported statement by Morse that Dwight Eisenhower and skidded Teamsters Union Boss Dave Beck are "the same kind of immoralists"-Beck for pickpocketing his union members...
Baptism Postponed. Another difficulty is the fact that Islam is not only a religious faith but a communal allegiance and a social order. The Moslem's relation to God is inextricably linked with his relation to society. As a consequence, Moslems frequently upbraid Christianity for not disciplining and controlling Western civilization. Christians must impress on Islam, says Cragg, that "the Christian understanding of how man is put to rights is that it happens personally and through faith. . . . Thus the unit of Christianity [is] not society but persons in society . . . The Gospel of grace does not suppose that...
...gabby, obnoxious supersalesman who shouts his commercials, scolds the audience and continually squelches Stringbean Harry. After a few seconds of bumptious Bert, viewers feel so sorry for well-meaning Harry that they listen carefully to every word he has to say. A New Jersey woman even wrote in to upbraid the brewery for the "loud, offensive" way in which Bert bullies his brother...
...companionship, the maid shoos her out, tells her: "Masters are masters and servants are servants! Society makes these rules." To give her life a dash of drama, Hélene pretends, when in school, not to know her lessons-just to hear her classmates titter and her teachers upbraid her. Down deep she is convinced that, except for a miracle, "nothing will ever happen to me in all my life...
...President recalled that he himself had once been a boy editor for the Independence (Mo.) high school paper. It was called The Gleam, "after that admonition in Tennyson's poem-'After it, follow it, follow the Gleam.' "* Then Truman, who seldom misses a chance to upbraid the press, got in a typical dig: "We do have . . . some publications which do not care very much for the truth ... I hope that if any of you become editors of great publications . . . you will stick strictly to the truth and nothing but the truth...