Word: dismissed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...yelps yourself." The same player, who makes his share of mistakes, added: "He never second-guesses a physical error, just never mentions them. But if you make a mental mistake he'll tell you about it privately, say 'Don't let it happen again ' and dismiss you with a smile. From, what I gather, though, it's best not to let it happen again...
...when the Kentucky legislature passed a law forbidding Negroes and whites to attend the same schools, little nonsectarian Berea College had to dismiss its handful of Negro students. Last month, after 46 years, the legislature changed its mind. With the law amended, 95-year-old Berea (enrollment: 1,148), whose president is Francis S. Hutchins, younger brother of Chicago's Robert M. Hutchins (see above), became the first Kentucky college to announce that it would welcome Negroes back...
There were other objections, which the men of Atlantic Union are apt to brush off with statistics (which obviously do not satisfy all their listeners) or to dismiss impatiently as emotional or irrelevant. The State Department itself had two crushing replies to Atlantic Unionists: i) to get involved in all sorts of controversial discussions with U.S. allies over money, debts, immigration, etc., at this critical point might divide the Atlantic allies instead of uniting them; 2) there was as yet no widespread demand for their plan, either in the U.S. or abroad...
What I tried to express was my belief that not all Czech music is great music. As a Czech, I could hardly dismiss such composers as Smetana, Dvorak, Janacek and Martinu...
Humphrey, continued Byrd, had misquoted and misused committee figures to prove his case. He had overlooked some elementary facts and twisted others out of shape. Then Byrd hit his peroration. Humphrey had tried to dismiss the committee as just a "publicity medium," he snapped. "As the Senator from Minnesota is a publicity expert himself, his statement could be regarded as a compliment...