Word: dismissing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dawn hours one morning in November, three crack paratroop battalions moved out of their barracks in trucks, surrounded the presidential palace and opened fire on the surprised guards. The rebels had no intention of removing Diem, wanted only his promise to dismiss his cabinet, form a provisional military government, guarantee freedom of the press and step up the fight against the Communists. Diem agreed to all this as he dickered by telephone with the rebel leaders outside. But when loyal army units arrived to break the siege. Diem blandly watered down his promised reforms, sniffing, "It was nothing . . . a handful...
...Dean, 87-year-old Hewlett Johnson, Dr. Ramsey received the gold-encrusted shepherd's crook of his office, then moved to the grey marble Chair of St. Augustine,† on which each Archbishop of Canterbury has sat for his enthronement since 1205. Before speaking, Ramsey seemed deliberately to dismiss the pageant splendor around him, fumbling in his robes for his spectacles and his handkerchief. Carefully he cleaned each lens, placed the glasses on his nose, and wiped a drop of moisture from the palm of one hand. Then he began in fluting tones to preach for the first time...
...Refused to dismiss Connecticut's laws against the use of birth control devices [TIME, March 10] because the plaintiffs failed to prove that the law had ever been enforced against them...
...stories, and nothing much is meant to happen. There is tension without release, motion without direction. As a mask dropper, Lowry keeps reappearing under names that are part symbol, part joke and part hoax: Sigbjørn Wilderness, Kennish Drumgold Cosnahan, Roderick McGregor Fairhaven. It would be easy to dismiss these characters as anxious bores if they were not also unholy ghosts, shadows of a perturbed spirit, "ghouls of past delirium, wounds to other souls, ghosts of actions approximating to murder, betrayals of self and I know not what, ready to leap out and destroy me." One always begins...
...while Schelling and Halperin are excellent in discussions of certain areas where each has done special research (surveillance forces, limited wars), their treatment of some topics is entirely too sketchy. Sometimes, as with politico-military points, the authors simply admit this and dismiss it, saying it is beyond the scope of their book which aims at the military consequences of arms control. Even admitting this defense, at other times one finds the presentation altogether lacking in detail; for instance, the sub-chapter on the Nth country problem, is only four paragraphs long. The ultimate effect is a solid treatment...