Word: brushoffs
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...riots that result in the burning of Shepheard's Hotel lead Major Khaled and a few other hothead officers to try an overnight coup. Dirk is jailed briefly and ordered to leave the country. When Aziza and clan hear of his disgrace, he gets an even quicker brushoff. As Aziza screams her parting words, they seem almost like an Egyptian anathema on all foreigners: "Son of a dog! I'll find an Egyptian ten times better than...
...Second, my church and my community set themselves against my interpretation and they resisted integration. I talked about integration to people in my home, on the streets, and in prayer meetings in my church. Soon I was met by Christians with chilly silence, or a polite brushoff, or the warning that I was talking too much about the Negro question...
...said Dr. Hodges, than doctors are of making the wrong diagnosis. When a reporter does make a mistake in a medical story, the real cause may be a doctor's refusal to cooperate. Medical men often treat the press "as despised menials, or the morbidly curious," give the brushoff to the reporter who is "merely attempting to quote you accurately...
...been around long enough to know that buying a piece of a fighter is one sure way to buy underworld class-it gives a guy the taint of respectability. So when Helfand tried to find out why a slick young welterweight named Vince Martinez was getting the brushoff from matchmakers, it was not exactly news that witnesses began to mumble about a Murder Inc. alumnus named Frankie Carbo...
...Party Feline. In Carson City, Nev., two weeks before primary elections, Dorothy Hersey advertised in the Nevada Appeal: "If you want my vote, find a home for my mother cat and three kittens." Brushoff. In Memphis, suing Baptist Hospital for $15,000, Grocery Clerk Fred Oliver, 46, testified that he had awakened after an abdominal operation to find that his mustache had disappeared, later suffered "hurt and embarrassment" when, because of a skin ailment, the mustache would not grow back...