Word: dismissed
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Sleight of Hand. Only the most bigoted proponents of the doctrine of common sense will dismiss these "sightings" as illusory. On the other hand, only those unusually gifted with credulity will accept the Edwards account of them, which offers an explanation more unlikely than the phenomena. For example: "Why were there virtually no UFO sightings from 1926 to 1946?" Obviously "they" (the occupants of the UFOs) were improving the design, which seems to beg the question of whether the UFOs had occupants and were designed...
Outraged, the Rose sisters asked Manhattan's Surrogate Court either to dismiss the executors or order them to bury the decedent. Surrogate Joseph A. Cox denied both motions, ruling that "it cannot be said that a fiduciary availing himself of a legal remedy is guilty of improper conduct." Added Cox: Burying the dead is the privilege of the next of kin, while it is "the obligation of the executors to pay the reasonable funeral expenses...
...trade and commerce. He fined the ten-team league $55,000 and court costs, ordered it either to 1) bring the Braves back, or 2) give Milwaukee a new team. Last week, in a 4-3 decision, Wisconsin's Supreme Court overruled Roller and ordered him to dismiss the case...
...court voted eight to seven to dismiss the case brought by Ethiopia and Liberia against South Africa, on the technical grounds that neither of the plaintiffs had "any legal right or interest" in the matter...
...dismiss Malcolm X with such facility is to do him an injustice. His was an extraordinarily elusive personality; his volatility and suspicion of all white men combined to give him the reputation of being the "angriest Negro in America." His character demanded total commitment, and so, when introduced to Muslim teachings and to Elijah Muhammed, he devoted himself almost compulsively to the religion and its leader...