Word: brushoffs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even his private advisers urged him to lay off. His Foreign Minister, Heinrich von Brentano, flatly contradicted his remarks on Geneva. Maddest of all, Ludwig Erhard demanded a public apology, but all he got from the Chancellor was a grudging brushoff. "Honorable Herr Erhard." wrote Adenauer in a personal letter, "I am of the opinion that we must not offer a spectacle of dispute to the public. Therefore, I do not intend to reply to your arguments." Bowing to pleas of party conciliators, he added: "You know I attach the greatest importance to further harmonious collaboration with you." But that...
Time, Gentlemen. In Columbus, Ohio, burglars who had broken into the Honky Tonk Grill told a man trying to get in, "Sorry, buddy, we're closed," learned when the police picked them up that they had given the brushoff to the owner...
...already replaced some ten key members of the government-run Radio-Television FranÇaise. Increasingly, French radio, television and newsreels are becoming sycophantic in praise of De Gaulle. When a parliamentary committee accused Soustelle of imposing on France "unilateral and partial information," ex-Marxist Soustelle's brushoff reply to this accusation recalled to Figaro Soustelle's youthful training in Communist dialectic...
...also showed that they were capable of spitting on a woman, an act that would cost them heavily in a continent that prizes manners. Latin Americans got a lesson in the excesses of nationalism. And for the U.S., there could no longer be illusions, complacency or high-level brushoff in U.S.Latin American relations...
...between the do-nothing and try-everything schools, Dermatologist MacKenna takes the view that "acne vulgaris is a normal accompaniment of adolescence and is an abnormality only when it ceases to be very mild and is obviously noticeable." For this second type he deplores the it-will-go-away brushoff and gets down to cases...