Word: dismissal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Congratulations on your article about my husband. However, I would like to take exception to your description of our daughter's performance at Madison Square Garden as "mediocre." A roomful of ribbons and trophies attests to the fact that she is a fine horseback rider and competitor. To dismiss her ride at the Garden as mediocre is insensitive as well as inaccurate. Might I suggest the word unsuccessful...
Despite the signal, the Argentines allowed a fatal day to pass before returning to the scene. A high Argentine naval official says that the destroyers were too far away, and the seas too rough, to permit a speedy rescue-explanations the British dismiss. For reasons unknown, the British Defense Ministry decided to keep silent about the secret message. Said a British intelligence source last week: "Those bloody fools threw away an ace card to satisfy their appetite for secrecy. As a result we were denounced as killers...
...continues to make headlines on occasion: Former members may, for example, sell themselves as born-again Wall Street brokers, or shoot up armored bank trucks and their passengers. With time, it becomes increasingly easy, and even fashionable, to dismiss the unusual attitudes and-actions of the Sixties as merely the source of this ludicrous legacy...
ACSR members wanted to make sure the Corporation did not dismiss the committee's arguments as poorly reasoned, he said. "What they're trying to do is take a position from which the Corporation can't took down." he said...
...also hear stories about Chinese officials who confiscate calligraphies. Mongolians who open cameras and expose film, and Russians who dispute visas because passengers no longer resemble their passport photos. Collecting our passports, the medal-chested officers search our compartments with flashlights, not for contraband, but for bodies. They then dismiss us to change money, U.S. dollar standard, while workers change the dining car and the outside wheels to accommodate the narrower Mongolian track. In the deserted station, the passengers mingle, elated--and shivery. We are relieved by an easy passage through customs, but frightened by the barbed wire and guns...