Word: brushoff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...students, who have been demanding apologies from the regime, reinstatement for those expelled from school and fair press coverage, Go-mulka's speech was an official brushoff. Many continued cutting classes or staging sit-ins outside them, even after signs went up threatening expulsion-and a loss of draft exemption. At Cracow's Ja-gellonian University, students staged a sitdown strike for two days running. Warsaw University authorities locked the campus gates when thousands of students refused to attend lectures. At War saw's Polytechnical Institute, some 5,000 students sacked out in the hallways, playing cards...
...About "Le Brushoff" [May 26]: Indeed, Napoleon will be forever remembered as le petit grand for his vision and as the great champion of a United Europe. De Gaulle will be remembered as le grand petit for his narrow views on Europe. It is amazing that the new Europe tolerates this narrow-minded...
...great clearsightedness and deep experience had characterized as formidable." De Gaulle made it clear that he will oppose British entry and. for that matter, that he takes a dim view even of negotiations. It was one resounding non-or, as the London Express put it in Franglais: "le brushoff...
...induction was postponed, but only until Feb. 1. Grimly, Gary Wilson began a patient-and unrewarding-series of visits to the draft board office. "I'd go down there, wait three hours to see someone," he said, "and I'd get nowhere. I was getting the brushoff...
...slight, stooped electrical engineer, Shapp, 53, parlayed an investment of $500 into the Jerrold Corp., a multi-million-dollar electronics firm. He had hankered for political office for years, only to be given the polite brushoff by politicians more interested in his cash than his candidacy. Denied the senatorial nomination in 1964, Shapp decided that 1966 was the year to go it alone...