Word: brushoffs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Better than most he knew the history of the Administration's bewildering policy there: its brushoff of Formosa last January as strategically not worth the risk; its apparently forthright decision on June 27 to defend it; Dean Acheson's spurning, after that, of any alliance with Chiang...
...cocktail party in Washington last week, Joe McCarthy, the only Senator present, got the brushoff, sat moodily in the corner by himself. But when he went home to Wisconsin he got many a cheer from people who approved his target so much that they didn't criticize his aim. At Wisconsin's Republican convention, 2,500 delegates applauded long & loudly his keynote speech on Communists in Government. Then they whooped through a resolution to "heartily commend and encourage" McCarthy's efforts. Only one man got up to object. Lawyer Perry J. Stearns, a candidate for the Senate...
...course Salesman Talbott became advertising vice president of Joyce, Inc., one of the world's biggest makers of women's play shoes. To get a line on women's likes & dislikes, he tried a door-to-door canvass, but busy housewives gave him the brushoff. So he packed a laundry bundle and started talking to women at self-service laundries, where they had plenty of time to kill. Besides talking, he read magazine ads to the women to see which words got a rise out of them...