Word: admonish
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard students adore their friends, but admonish the dating scene, perhaps datelessness is not because of Harvard, but because of a lack of trying. Six weeks of playing the "lunch chick" has taught me that what I really want as a date is what I had all year--that while I knocked the dating scene with my pals and basked in Harvard's abounding singles' sarcasm I never really tested the uncharted waters myself...
...Harvard students adore their friends, but admonish the dating scene, perhaps datelessness is not because of Harvard, but because of a lack of trying. Six weeks of playing the "lunch chick" has taught me that what I really want as a date is what I had all year--that while I knocked the dating scene with my pals and basked in Harvard's abounding singles' sarcasm I never really tested the uncharted waters myself...
...study, conducted by Illinois psychologist Laurie Kramer and researcher Lisa Perozynski, identified three main responses parents have when they find their children engaged in a verbal or physical fight: step in and talk it through with the children, threaten or admonish the children, or do nothing at all. As a group, both mothers and fathers believed that helping children resolve conflicts worked best in addressing the immediate problem. Yet when they examined 88 two-parent families with one child 3 to 5 years old and a second child two to four years older, Kramer and Perozynski found that parents were...
Sadly, the President's Cabinet, like the upper echelons of most corporations, remains more like baseball in 1947 than basketball in the '90s. So few blacks have risen to that level that the rules governing first blacks still apply. That is why black parents, including Espy's, admonish their children that they must be twice as prepared--and twice as honest--as their white counterparts if they want to succeed. And why during the glory days of the civil rights movement, activists boasted that they would not swim in the mainstream because it was too polluted. These old strictures...
...body, pointing out that her friends often thought her anorexic and then generously offering to "trade you my body for your mind." As it turns out, it was the one thing she had to offer in return for her weekend of plunder. As the other roommates heard Celeste admonish her strongly, saying, "No you may not borrow my underwear," they had hid their heads under their pillows and sent up a fervent prayer to the night that the interloper be teleported back to U Mass...