Word: dismissal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...longer afford to dismiss federalism as an idea for "a little group of serious thinkers," Munoz stated, implying that the alternative is destructive nationalism and possible nuclear extinction. "Wars in the past," the Governor of Puerto Rico said, "have been fought by national states or blocs with a prospect of victory; there is no such prospect in the future," because of the absolute power of modern weapons...
Some advocates of forced-draft growth dismiss the Administration's worries about price upcreep, argue that "mild" inflation does no harm. Harvard's Professor Emeritus Alvin Hansen, grand old man of the a-little-inflation-never-hurt-anybody school, points out that prices edged upward at an average rate of 2⅓ a year over the past 60 years, while the U.S. was achieving history's most remarkable record of economic growth...
Reading the cases, we easily tend to be cynical and dismiss the entire thing as a maudlin attempt to cash in on our sympathy, so generous and outgoing at Christmas time. Some readers, of course, might be moved to send in a few dollars to help Mrs. Bella H., 85, obtain the guidance she needs...
...There. The famed Berlin spirit long ago reckoned all its dangers, and decided not to dismiss them, but it also decided not to be oppressed by them. Says an officer of the Chamber of Trade and Industry, "We live by our hands and by our brains-and by other peoples' moods." Down inside, no West Berliner living in 186 sq. mi. of freedom no miles inside the Iron Curtain, can be indifferent to other people's moods, particularly "out there," as West Berliners call West Germany. In Bonn last week, before setting out for Berlin, Adenauer had summoned...
Inevitably the U.S., as the most powerful of Western nations, has been declared the focus of Chinese hatred and resentment. With an ignorant arrogance that could have disastrous consequences for the world, Peking's rulers dismiss the U.S. as a "paper tiger," pooh-pooh the U.S. H-bomb. Four years ago Red China's War Minister confidently told Sam Watson, former chairman of the British Labor Party: "Even if 200 million of us were killed, we would still have 400 million left." Mao himself makes no bones of his ambition to "drive the U.S. out of East Asia...