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Word: dismissed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...schedule new elections this month. Opposition candidates would be permitted, and the elections were to be completely free. But he explained candidly: "As head of the state, I am above parties, and organizations. If the government is not working properly, even though it has a majority, I can dismiss the government and disband the Majlis. What difference does it make to me who becomes a Deputy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: The People Wait | 7/18/1960 | See Source »

...trouble-I have just the same symptoms." To laymen, who think that the relatively useless prostate is the male's exclusive property, this sounds silly. Even doctors, who know from their anatomy books that glands around a woman's urethra are analogous to the male organ, usually dismiss the diagnosis as implausible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Female Prostate | 7/4/1960 | See Source »

...Principal Hiram Alexander, who said fretfully: "We all make mistakes. She's really a good teacher." Last week, after long mulling, Alexander issued a split decision-remove the book, retain Teacher Levin. Said he warily: "I can't forget the incident. But I will not dismiss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Rye on the Rocks | 5/9/1960 | See Source »

Hard Bargains. Western specialists no longer dismiss the differences between Peking and Moscow as some kind of subtle maneuver to confuse the West. But they believe that China's objections to Khrushchev's policy of coexistence with the West are more tactical than strategic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Creaking Axis | 2/22/1960 | See Source »

...accused of "mistaken conduct." When the argument with the angry ladies became heated, Mahler's hostess drew a curtain, revealing a lawyer scribbling verbatim notes. Before Mahler left, he was forced to sign a legal document refusing him the right to choose programs and requiring him to dismiss a member of the orchestra who had kept him informed about what the others were saying about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Mahler Revisited | 1/11/1960 | See Source »

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