Word: brushoffs
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...broadcast was promptly reported in the U.S. press. Manhattan's tabloid Daily Mirror headlined it: MONTY GETS THE GLORY, YANKS GET THE BRUSHOFF...
Finally Candidate Roosevelt came to a main piece of business in his speech-an attempt to give a brisk brushoff to Earl Browder and his enthusiastic Communist support for Term IV, without alienating any needed votes: "I have never sought and I do not welcome the support of any person or group committed to Communism, or Fascism, or any other foreign ideology which would undermine the American system of government...
...increasing practice of killing and maiming of news stories, and the more frequent brushoff of news queries...