Word: dismissed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rebuttal. In Lisbon Falls, Me., when the town's selectmen increased the tax rate on real estate, the citizens held a special meeting, voted to dismiss all five selectmen from their jobs...
...combining these domestic promises with aggressive campaigning, the Labour Party has stolen the offensive. Trying to dismiss such promises as "auctioneering," the Conservatives are looking for strength in the closing days of the campaign to the improved prospect of a summit meeting. The current truck strike should also benefit the Tories, as it refreshes the anti-union sentiment and reminds the voters of the close connection between the unions and the Labour Party...
Americans must not assume too lightly that Premier Khrushchev's disarmament proposal is "only propaganda." A tendency exists here, particularly in high governmental circles, to dismiss anything that emerges from Russian mouths as tainted and patently unacceptable. No one can object to care or even suspicion in considering Soviet proposals, especially with so much at stake, but in this case there is a strong chance that Khrushchev means business. If so, he must be taken seriously...
...Soviet proposal is a good deal simpler than the Western plan, and hence it is easier to dismiss. Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko has asked that the Big Four sign separate peace treaties with the "two German states" and then undertake the joint administration of West Berlin as a "free city." Western acceptance of this plan means recognition of East Germany, abandonment of the traditional policy of re-unification through free elections, and admission that while the East Germans have a right to East Berlin as their "capital" West Berlin must remain under political tutelage--with a new and rather...
...Last Order. The immensity of this project, says Author Duggan, makes us "inclined to dismiss it as absurd." But the Romans were "genuinely afraid" of it. Before Mithradates could attempt his march on Italy, his son Pharnaces II led a revolution to overthrow him. Trapped in his own palace, the 69-year-old despot barked his last order-and was obediently stabbed to death by a trusted follower. Many a decade would pass before the memory of the King of Pontus faded from Roman minds-and still more decades before the brutish campaigns of the victors were forgotten...