Word: dismissiveness
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...defense has been contesting this power ever since Kamin was indicted last December. They asked without success last spring that Judge Aldrich dismiss Kamin's indictment mainly on the grounds that the McCarthy committee had exceeded its authority...
...drove up to his house, ordered him inside and shot him dead. Called by a fleeing servant, the police arrived in time to kill one assailant while the others fled. Loath to borrow trouble in matters involving Formosa and Peking, the Hong Kong police at first attempted to dismiss the whole incident as "a simple robbery," but later, thinking better of it, posted a whopping reward of $3,500 for the missing murderers...
...wife, a sophisticated Persian.* Mirza's appointment to the governor generalship requires the formal confirmation of Queen Elizabeth, but Strongman Mirza is in no doubt about what his authority will give him. Said he: "The Governor General must have extensive and clearly defined powers, including the power to dismiss governments." Mirza's first job was to accept the resignation of Premier Mohammed Ali. The Premier did not want to quit, but the Moslem League, in an all-night session, removed him as its leader. Rebuffed by his party, Ali gave up the premiership...
...information about Government employees have the law's promise of secrecy if they want it; the person under investigation does not necessarily know who said what about him. In 1951 the Supreme Court split 4 to 4 when asked to rule that the Government could not dismiss an employee for security reasons unless it allowed him to confront the persons who had given information about him on which the Government based its decision. This spring the issue again reached the highest court (TIME, May 2), in the case of Yale's Professor of Medicine John Punnett Peters...
...been formally charged with this refusal to answer the questions put to her by the Committee about her associations, chairman Waldron said, he would have voted to dismiss her from her teaching post...