Word: dismissiveness
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...Crown's sole positive duty is now "to consult, to encourage and to warn." But the King can still-theoretically-without consulting Parliament, disband his country's Army, sell all the Navy's ships, dismiss most of the civil servants, pardon all criminals, close all churches, create every citizen a peer, pick his own Prime Minister, and declare war on anyone he chooses. In practice, no King-or Queen-would dare do one of these things...
...would be well for every American to read the letter by C. Llambi-Campbell and think about it. Many will . . . conclude that the writer is pro-Nazi and dismiss it. It is my conviction, however, that there are millions with similar views. My experience in Panama leads me to think they are justified. I have seen the overbearing insolence of the soldiers we naively call "our smiling ambassadors...
...jungle of portal-to-portal pay suits was suggested last week by the U.S. Department of Justice. It asked Detroit's Federal Court judge, Frank A. Picard, to dismiss the Mount Clemens Pottery Co. case (TIME...
...Hygiene Department is justified in withholding vaccinations, it cannot afford to point with pride at the empty beds in Stillman and dismiss the problem. If the charts are to be believed, a world already weakened by war stands on the threshold of another disastrous flu pandemic. The policy of the University medical men must be one of watchful waiting. They should decide now how best they could vaccinate men wholesale in case of emergency. They should assure ready access to stocks of vaccine, if and when an epidemic strikes. The storm signals are flying; the Hygiene Department must batten...
...feel only pity," concluded Stimson, "for the casuist who would dismiss the Nazi leaders because 'they were not warned it was a crime.' They were warned and they sneered contempt. Our shame is that their contempt was so nearly justified, not that we have in the end made good our warning...