Word: dismissal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...looked as if a baby contest were in full swing. In fact, the prams' owners were visiting the wind-whipped Welsh resort for the Liberal Party's annual conference, its biggest and most closely watched gathering since the war. Though it has been fashionable in Britain to dismiss the Liberals themselves as political babes-in-arms, last week's conference showed that the resurgent party not only appeals powerfully to the young-hence the youthful parents with their prams-but that it has also developed a new maturity that may well make it a force...
...massive French imports of low-priced Italian refrigerators. G.M.'s Frigidaire plant in France early this month laid off 685 of its 3,100 workers. Last week Remington, which has steadily lost ground in the French market to West German typewriter makers, announced that it planned to dismiss 300 French employees and move all its European portable-typewriter production to a newer plant in The Netherlands...
Next day Hoover's boss, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, answered Ferry. Said Kennedy: "A major reason for the numerical weakness and lack of broad influence of the Communist Party in the U.S. is the dedication and effort of J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI. Those who dismiss the problem of Communist espionage perform a disservice to the nation. I also have said many times that I think those who see a Communist under every chair are similarly misled. I say to those on both extremes of this question: leave the job to the experts. Mr. Hoover is my expert...
...Cleveland welder, Rollins was one of those college phenoms that the scouts all rush to see-and then dismiss...
Most of the North African Jews, who follow the stricter Sephardic tradition, regard the Ashkenazim in France as doctrinally unorthodox and lax in their observance of religious duties. French Jews, in turn, privately dismiss the Sephardim as "backward and bigoted," fear the "superstitions" that the newcomers could impose upon Judaism in France...