Word: dismissed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Maxwell defined it as being "so unbelievably charming and thoughtful that you are off guard before you know it." Zsa Zsa Gabor said he was "a gentleman who should have been born a hundred years ago-this century is too fast for him, too cold." Men were apt to dismiss his allure as a capacity for taking infinite pains in the pursuit of pleasure: having a match flaming by the time a woman's cigarette touched her lips, for example, or being, as his old Paris nickname of "Toujours Prêt" suggested, ever ready to supply affection. Rubi...
Vitality & Life. Modern historians dismiss most of Magna Carta as something of a relic of 13th century feudalism, and most schoolboys read of it but never in it. Yet the remarkable thing about that venerable document is that it enunciated many of the brilliant first principles that give vitality to the U.S. Constitution and thus life to the law that affects and protects the great and the humble alike...
...Stone, in his "Reply to the White Paper," tends to dismiss the discovery of a ship running arms on February 16, 1955 as being insignificant. This one ship had enough arms aboard her to re-equip approximately 15 per cent of the hard-core Vietcong force and enough ammunition for 20 full scale battalion actions lasting 24 hours each. One hesitates to think about the effect just ten such shiploads would have on the course of the Vietnam...
That editor Thomas E. Petri was badly misquoted is beside the point now; as with the book, we would rather dismiss past problems and concentrate on looking ahead. Our purpose is to help the GOP build itself into a relevant political force for the future...
...heard you were going to be in town today and wondered if you would like to listen to the Debate with us-I'm having a Listening Party at 1028 Connecticut Ave. and would love it if you came and brought anyone you like-" Then, as if to dismiss the whole affair as unimportant, she added, "But I expect you are exhausted from your travels (I loved your story in the N.Y. Herald Tribune) and are looking forward to relaxing and watching TV at home-if so, I understand perfectly...