Word: dismissal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most part, newsmen stationed in Hong Kong-with easier access to seasoned China experts as well as Chinese returning from mainland visits-tend to file more knowing reports on politicking within China's hierarchy. Hong Kong-based reporters dismiss the Peking corps' output as mainly "sights, sounds and smells." Yet, as Burns points out, there is a wide market for atmospheric human-interest tales. Thus Burns recently filed a poignant portrait of an elderly White Russian émigré in the remote northern city of Harbin. Last spring he ran in Peking's annual seven-mile "round...
...black suit and sat in a black chair in a room with black walls, so that his face seemed to hover in mid-screen, and delivered his pitch in a deep, smoke-cured voice. At the end of each spot he would bring on his family and then dismiss his wife and daughters and fondly drape an arm around each of his two sons...
When the story of the stolen documents finally broke this month, a Pentagon spokesman tried to dismiss it as the result of "overzealousness and overexuberance" on the part of low-ranking staff members. Some officers privately said, however, that far from being gung-ho, Radford and Welander did no more than what is expected of most liaison personnel. The military, loathing surprises, takes extraordinary steps to keep itself apprised of what is going on in Washington. At least 515 liaison officers are assigned to civilian agencies; there are even five in the U.S. Postal Service. Declared one retired admiral: "Military...
...four themes (Peter Townshend's, in fact) is explicitly moral, and the weakest, lyrically and musically, ending the opera with a piece of simplistic fluff called "Love, Reign O'er Me." In the main though, aside from Quadrophenia's socio-historical-contextual significance (which is nothing to dismiss), whatever statement it makes is one of "stance...
With due chivalry, Sanders refused to dismiss Dartmouth as a threat in a practice session yesterday. "They're all easy until we meet them," Sanders said. "I thought UMass would be weaker than they were, and we lost that one, so I'm not making any predictions...