Word: dismissiveness
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Boxing the Compass. In Baltimore, after a judge told three brawlers he would dismiss charges if they got out of town, Defendant North went west, Easterly headed south, but Southern paid his fine and stayed...
Much credit is due to TIME for the excellent May 14 review of Henry P. Van Dusen's book God in Education. Such a book is more than welcome today when too many self-styled educators either sneer at religion or contemptuously dismiss it as a bundle of myths...
Letters in Blood. Later, Mossadeq got a law doctorate in Switzerland, and in 1916 the young lawyer was appointed Under Secretary of Finance. With characteristic energy and total lack of tact, he tried summarily to dismiss hundreds of do-nothing officeholders. Some of them wrote him threatening letters in blood. He was fired, but in 1919 Mossadeq jumped up again. He founded his political reputation by attacking the British (who had just forced the Persian government to sign a treaty making the country virtually a protectorate). He was exiled again; in 1920 he was back as governor of a province...
...Prospects. For the moment, Mossadeq holds power in his frail, nervous hands. The only other Iranian politician of stature is Ahmad Qavam, who is ill in Switzerland. The young Shah, who is known to favor a go-slow policy on oil nationalization, could dissolve Parliament, dismiss Mossadeq and rule the country with his still loyal army, but all signs indicate that he does not dare try. Even the Communists have for the moment been stopped by Mossadeq's popularity. They have called off street demonstrations and other political action, evidently waiting to strike if & when Mossadeq makes a mess...
...because the hospital had hired its third Negro nurse. Sister Helen Clare, the hospital's administrator, stood her ground. She had sisters of the Order of St. Joseph flown in from nearby cities to take care of the hospital's 130 patients. "St. Francis Hospital will not dismiss any nurse or other employee on account of race," she said; and she had the backing of Bishop John J. Swint of Wheeling and of the local Charleston Gazette. Said the Gazette: "Nowhere in the language of the Nightingale oath is there mention of religion, color or political belief...