Word: dismissal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This was by no means the first attack on Minority Leader Joe Martin's do-nothing policy. But Joe Martin could not dismiss it as coming from a bunch of amateurs. Signers of the statement included such able legislators as Minnesota's Walter Judd, New York's Augustus Bennet. New Jersey's James Auchincloss, and Massachusett's Christian Herter...
...undoubtedly conspired for aggressive war, and had then waged it according to horrendously detailed plans. But the prosecution's premise-the responsibility, of comparatively few-was all too familiar. In the years when Mussolini and Hitler were rising, just such theories had led the libertarian world to dismiss Fascism and Naziism as the work of a few bullyboys...
Americans like to dismiss Russians and their policies as enigmatic. Few Americans have investigated Russia's purposes and plans by reading the basic writings of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Nikolai Lenin and Joseph Stalin. But for at least a generation those purposes are likely to constitute the world's No. 1 political argument...
...sometimes diffuses material that Author Scott has already reported for TIME (he was formerly TIME'S correspondent in Stockholm, is now TIME'S correspondent in Berlin). But as a study in social forces, the book insists on an important fact which most Americans like to overlook or dismiss-the fact that Europe is going through a social revolution, which cannot fail to affect the whole world...
...replacement depots in the Philippines, the Army set up come-&-get-it centers, full of up-to-date maps and recent magazines, and staffed with instructors told not to dismiss any question as too trivial...