Word: dismissiveness
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Apprehension & Exile. Ky decided on a subtle ploy. On the same day that he took off for Australia and New Zealand last month, he sent Co to Taiwan, ostensibly to attend a ceremony opening direct air service from Taipei to Saigon. The decision to dismiss Co had already been made at a meeting of the military Directory a few days before, and Ky did not want Co around Saigon to spark any possible retaliatory coup in his absence. When the news of Go's downfall broke in Saigon, both the Premier and his enemy were well clear...
...exam every month," said Clark Kerr to a group of reporters last week. "I've taken lots of them and passed. This time I didn't." Indeed not. By a vote of 14 to 8, Cali fornia's board of regents had just de cided to dismiss Kerr after eight years as head of the nation's largest university...
While table varieties accounted for only 20% of U.S. wine sales 30 years ago, they are now up to 40%, and industry sources expect that they will reach 75% before long. New York producers plan to benefit most-and they archly dismiss the lushly productive vineyards of their California rivals. Says Ernest I. Reveal, president of Widmer's Wine Cellars, Inc., the No. 2 New York vintner (after Taylor): "We like the fact that the vine has to hustle its bustle a bit to give us the required grape...
...private university have jumped nearly ten-fold! Except for the children of rich families, most students have found it exceedingly difficult to pay such a big sum for school fees. In order to make some money, they cannot help, as soon as the school bell rings to dismiss school, rushing to various hotels, restaurants, and coffee houses to fight for jobs as dish-washers, waiters, baby-sitters, etc. They often work from 4 o'clock in the afternoon straight to midnight; after that they drag their tired bodies back to their dormitories. And the wages they get are pitifully small...
...Another heroine (as we learn from her "New Angles on Life notebook") is mildly inspired by a sermon, but finds her salvation in a brass bed with an old friend who happened to be in church that morning. It's good to dismiss it all like that, but don't admit the symbolism--unless it's at the artistic level, of course. For a while you actually seemed to take it seriously, and that should never be done. Unless you're writing about your own conversion which, if treated properly, is fashionable nowadays...