Word: cancellous
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...cancel his briefings for the Republican defenders of the President. The aide looked puzzled...
...angry cooperatives decided to cancel plans to donate between $60,000 and $100,000 to a G.O.P. fund-raising dinner scheduled for March 24 in Washington...
...good days," he keeps up a reasonable schedule, but at other times he may be completely senile. When Vice President Gerald Ford arrived in Madrid last December, Franco was in such poor shape that it was difficult to arrange a protocol visit. Spanish television recently had to cancel a film that was to have shown the dictator fishing. It was a bad day, and Franco had to be propped up by two aides...
...Soviet Union should meet and talk as colleagues in power. Such meetings, said a Nixon aide, build up a "web of interrelationships" between the two superpowers. Another high U.S. official added, with a laconic reference to Watergate: "It was scheduled last year. We had no reason to cancel. If we did not go to the summit, we would be saying that we are not a functioning government...
...that is unique in the nation. But last week the annual nightmare suddenly turned into every schoolboy's dream. As stories spread that copies of stolen answer keys were being sold in and around many of New York City's high schools, embarrassed officials were forced to cancel nine of the 21 tests, including those for English, Hebrew, social studies, biology, chemistry, physics and three different levels of mathematics...