Word: dismissiveness
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...estimated $150,000 in the armed forces economy drive (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), the U.S. Air Force decided to drop all foreign language courses for the 20,000 children now enrolled in U.S. Air Force schools in Europe and the Middle East. Air Force elementary and high schools will dismiss 119 native teachers whose purpose was to reduce the isolation of American youngsters living abroad. Commented Le Monde of Paris: "It seems a bit astonishing that the United States, which admits the necessity of extending into the cultural domain cooperation among allied countries in NATO, suppresses one of the rare means...
...show's regulars, Joan Terrace, 9, of Brooklyn, Jimmy Walsh, 9, of Hillside, N.J., and their adult guide, lanky Sonny Fox, 32. When they came to photographs of military leaders who served under Truman, Fox pointed to the picture of Douglas MacArthur and said: "Sometimes you have to dismiss generals, don't you, Mr. Truman?" "Yep," agreed Truman. "You hire 'em and you fire 'em, just like any other business." The former President pointed to Omar Bradley's photograph and said: "There's the greatest field general in the history of the country...
...Reason, an engineer tries to dismiss a haunting dream that someone near and dear will die in an air crash on May 14; the story ends in Lady or the Tiger fashion, with the man waiting powerlessly to learn the fate of the plane that is carrying his wife and child to him-on May 14. The Kiss at Croton Falls takes a lighter view of dreams as Mrs, Mull visits companionably each night with her dead husband until he makes the mist ike of bringing a pretty redhead home with him-twice...
Thank you for the tranquilizer prescribed by gentle Dr. Libby. It is a vast relief to know that we may dismiss from our minds the fears that have haunted Dr. Schweitzer. Surely it is needless to face fearful facts when playing ostrich is so much more comforting...
Libby did not deny that there was risk in the tests; for example, "excessive dosages" of strontium 90 can cause bone cancer and leukemia in animals, "so we should not casually dismiss the possibility of harmful results from fallout." But the risk appears to be remote. Reason: there is no present evidence that people living at high altitudes or on land with heavy uranium deposits are more susceptible to these diseases than anyone else. In sum, the risk to man from H-bomb testing "is extremely small compared with risks which persons everywhere take as a normal part of their...