Word: dismissed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pointing out that the college medical staff is "appointed to minimize the untoward results of athletics and to define as graphically and clearly as possible the end-results of treatment and those requiring special care," Thorndike contends "to dismiss a sprain of a ligament as a minor injury is a grave error...
Henderson's attorney asked the Supreme Court to dismiss Mrs. Henderson's appeal, claiming she was in contempt of court. The court conditionally agreed...
...Flew. Sholom Aleichem was a master at capturing the folk poetry and humorous abuses of Yiddish speech, and even in a rather stiff translation something of the verbal crackle comes through. When a character wants to dismiss a story as nonsense, he says: "A cow flew over the roof and laid an egg." The actors' scorn of domesticity is expressed in their saying: "The best marriage is the worst death." When a director wants to tell the angel that the best of plans take money, he cracks: "Without fingers you can't thumb your nose...
...Joint Chiefs of Staff, the civilian secretaries and the State Department, are pulled one way by the misgivings of allies, tugged another by election-year politics; they keep ever in mind (as they certainly should) the possibility of war in Europe or over Detroit-but are apt to dismiss as "localitis" any forthright attempt to settle the war in Korea. Any shavetail out of West Point could have put his finger on the Kaesong-Panmunjom fallacy by quoting Clausewitz: "If our opponent is to do our will, we must put him in a position more disadvantageous to him than...
...refused to dismiss the case, instead issued a temporary injunction to force nine gambling houses to put their regular ads back. Said Judge Foley: "The conspirators . . . cut off [the Sun's] bloodstream of existence . . . The abrupt cancellation of the advertising could very well [bring about] discontinuance of ... the newspaper." Judge Foley did not rule on whether McCarran had anything to do with the conspiracy. That will be decided when the Sun's main action goes to trial...