Word: dismissiveness
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...Flew. Sholom Aleichem was a master at capturing the folk poetry and humorous abuses of Yiddish speech, and even in a rather stiff translation something of the verbal crackle comes through. When a character wants to dismiss a story as nonsense, he says: "A cow flew over the roof and laid an egg." The actors' scorn of domesticity is expressed in their saying: "The best marriage is the worst death." When a director wants to tell the angel that the best of plans take money, he cracks: "Without fingers you can't thumb your nose...
...Joint Chiefs of Staff, the civilian secretaries and the State Department, are pulled one way by the misgivings of allies, tugged another by election-year politics; they keep ever in mind (as they certainly should) the possibility of war in Europe or over Detroit-but are apt to dismiss as "localitis" any forthright attempt to settle the war in Korea. Any shavetail out of West Point could have put his finger on the Kaesong-Panmunjom fallacy by quoting Clausewitz: "If our opponent is to do our will, we must put him in a position more disadvantageous to him than...
...refused to dismiss the case, instead issued a temporary injunction to force nine gambling houses to put their regular ads back. Said Judge Foley: "The conspirators . . . cut off [the Sun's] bloodstream of existence . . . The abrupt cancellation of the advertising could very well [bring about] discontinuance of ... the newspaper." Judge Foley did not rule on whether McCarran had anything to do with the conspiracy. That will be decided when the Sun's main action goes to trial...
...soon as Dreier's lawyer heard the testimony, he asked the court to dismiss the case, and the suit was summarily dropped. Last week Mayor Dreier was sitting mum in office while the district attorney looked over the record to see if there were grounds for criminal action. Said a headline in the Philadelphia Bulletin: PEOPLE OF NANTICOKE ASK "WHERE'S OUR MAYOR SINCE HE DROPPED THAT $100,000 LIBEL SUIT...
Green pointed out that there was 'so much premeditation" involved in the march on the Annex that he could not dismiss or file the case. "Just because the boys come here to school doesn't mean they can raise hob," he said. "Residents of Cambridge are entitled to be protected...