Word: admonish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gentlemen," he used to admonish departing seniors, "get capital...
...because they have given the Germans quite a punching around in the Sylt, Altmark and Spee affairs. Britons are not so prone as the restless French (see p. 20) to regard the war and their Government as passive. Nevertheless, War Secretary Oliver Stanley felt constrained to admonish domestic and foreign spectators who want more gore in World War II. "We intend to fight in our own way and not in their way," he snorted. "How easy it is, from the ringside, after a comfortable dinner, to urge other people to hit and go on hitting each other...