Word: dismissiveness
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Under the new section, the Council shall have the right to appoint and dismiss any member of the Charities Committee. The chairman of the committee is required to submit a report three weeks before the drive, stating exactly how the drive will be conducted...
...turn of the century, Paul Claudel and André Gide were beginning literary careers, Claudel as poet-playwright, Gide as novelist. In temperament and opinion, they were opposites: Claudel a zealous Roman Catholic, Gide a tormented doubter who could neither accept nor dismiss the Christian faith. The two men became cautious friends, and in 1899 began a correspondence which sputtered and stormed until 1926. Their letters, now published in English for the first time, give a fascinating picture of two first-rate minds locked in a long quarrel about ultimate realities...
...self-respecting Democrat, including Harry Truman, can lightly dismiss the disclosure that a department of the Government can't account for a mere $81 million being the inevitable from time to time in life, astounds me ... This is the kind of news that should make banner headlines. Unfortunately, it never does. Orchids to TIME for outstanding public service...
Pointing out that the college medical staff is "appointed to minimize the untoward results of athletics and to define as graphically and clearly as possible the end-results of treatment and those requiring special care," Thorndike contends "to dismiss a sprain of a ligament as a minor injury is a grave error...
Henderson's attorney asked the Supreme Court to dismiss Mrs. Henderson's appeal, claiming she was in contempt of court. The court conditionally agreed...