Word: admonish
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...least four occasions, the judge presiding over Criminal Case 9373 had to admonish observers for nodding off to sleep. The United States of America v. Daniel Ellsberg, Anthony Russo Jr.. which once held out the promise of a landmark debate over the public's right to know and the Government's need to be secretive, had instead turned into a tedious minuet, pivoting for the better part of twelve weeks around the strictly legal aspects of the case. Witnesses for the prosecution testified about fingerprints on the covers of the Pentagon Papers that allegedly proved theft...
...bank paid a $750,000 ransom. Another $1.5 million ransom was reportedly paid for the British president of Argentina's largest cigarette company, who was released last week. His wife, convinced from the start that his company would pay whatever ransom was demanded, went on television to admonish the kidnapers to "give him a comfortable bed and a little whisky now and then to keep his spirits...
...Corporation is in a knotty position itself. Should it admonish or find for the Dean, it leaves the School in the hands of a man on whom bitterness has centered for two years, and Harvard would face a possible civil suit by the three complainants. Should it find against Kilbridge, it could set a precedent for formal faculty action against administrators that could have serious implications in the future. But there is one approach which clearly should be a consideration: that the Corporation's chief responsibility is to protect Harvard's image, and to keep its internal spats internal...
...student strike focused Bond's activities. He began hanging around the student strike center, walking into rooms where he was not wanted, running errands, and always, always carrying around a tape recorder. At one meeting, he rose to admonish students to "work within the system." The prevailing feeling at the student strike center was that Bond was a cop, but so what...
...Egypt was enervated and decidedly unexotic, unmajestic, uninercurial, and rather bland, tired, and timid. There was petulance instead of the passionate anger of a moody, selfish, regal, lover-queen. Miss Yakutis must avail herself, as I know she can, of a range of tones and rhythms, and soar and admonish and implore and pout and sing her way to complexity. The soldiers are unremittingly declamatory, laboring to render each line as massively as possible. They don't speak to each other, but keep trying to lurch into Shakespeare's execrable Titus Andronicus oratory. Too many speeches are self-contained...