Word: upbraid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Until she left that job in December 1996 to head the Voice of America, her White House duties could include anything from arranging furniture to making sure aides had the President's briefing papers ready. But Lieberman also put a brake on the freewheeling Clinton kids. She would regularly upbraid interns for wearing open-toed shoes or using the upstairs rest room that she wanted reserved for guests. Under her regime, hemlines fell among female interns, and blouses were buttoned. Says an aide: "Evelyn was the enforcer...
...Tutsi as an administrative overclass but also, thanks to the pseudoscientific theories favored at the time in the West, led them to believe they were biologically superior as well. This engendered a level of resentment previously unseen in the region. "Tutsi and Hutu have killed each other more to upbraid a vision they have of themselves and the others than for material interests," historian Gerard Prunier wrote in his account of the 1994 Rwandan holocaust. "That is what makes the killing so relentless...