Word: dismisses
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...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...
...condemn you, who have made me an orphan. You attack the logic of religion and laugh, at cocktail parties, over totem poles and pillars. You dismiss mystics as paranoids and prophets as crackpots. You pride yourselves as Men of Logic when your understanding is mechanical. In your anxiety to reason, you have for gotten how to feel...
...obeyed so successfully that he became one of the four alltime opera masters, alongside Verdi, Wagner and Mozart. Though some critics dismiss him as sugary and sentimental, no opera house can hope to stay in business long without including in its repertory the three major monuments to Puccini's career-La Bohème, Tosca, Madame Butterfly. Puccini himself once made a list of the houses where his operas were playing; Tosca alone was then being given in 73 cities. His works steadily draw both dedicated opera buffs and occasional fans who might not recognize another note of opera...