Word: dismissed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Exaggerated though such fears may be, they are not frivolous. As recently as World War II Winston Churchill could impatiently dismiss as "unrealistic" U.S. insistence that China have big-power status. Yet today, barely 15 years later. Red China is universally acknowledged as the most formidable military power in Asia, can throw into action at any time more jet planes (over 2,000) and more troops (over 2,000,000) than all the rest of the East Asian powers combined. Within the Communist bloc, when China speaks, Khrushchev listens...
...used us to win or help win three elections. Our integration plan would have worked if it hadn't been for political interference." Out along with the rest of the board: School Superintendent Virgil T. Blossom. Before quitting, the board voted over Alford's objection to dismiss Blossom, pay him $19,741.41 for the remaining 19 months of his contract. But by week's end the segregationist machinery had produced a taxpayer's suit charging collusion, postponed payment...
...would not fight just to defend Quemoy and Matsu but to stop Communism's heralded advance into the west Pacific-"I cannot dismiss these boastings as mere bluff...
Fortnight ago, when Britain suffered its first race riots (TiME, Sept. 8), most Britons were inclined to dismiss them as a shocking but temporary aberration. Last week, in shame and humiliation, Englishmen learned that racism had become part of the British way of life...
...less easy to dismiss the venom spewed forth next day by Saudi Arabia's Ahmed Shukairy. Speaking for the Arab princes who live on the royalties from U.S. oil companies, Shukairy exhorted the Western powers to get out of the Middle East and stay...