Word: dismissiveness
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Trouble started last fortnight when Chairman Brundage announced that some of the 334 Olympic athletes had been roistering in the bar of the S. S. Manhattan on which they were en route to Germany. He threatened to dismiss second offenders from the team, remarked darkly: "This trip is no joyride...
...them, owing to life-appointments already held, for example, to justify their retention if they are not of the highest possible calibre. For it is not compatible with the policy of the Administration to keep a man as tutor or instructor for a long period of years, and then dismiss him if he is not to be promoted...
...debate on this high-handed motion, the Left, led by egg-headed Socialist Indalecio Prieto, solidly demanded the President's resignation, insisting that the dissolution that had led to its accession to power had been "unnecessary." Mournfully replied the old monarchist, Count de Romanones, "To dismiss even a cloakroom attendant would require eight days of preparation while the President is to be dismissed in a few minutes." The Catholic and monarchist Right, which had lost power by Zamora's dissolution of the last Cortes, abstained from the voting, knowing that any President put in by the Left could...
...glad to set down a few good things I heard; The Oath Bill can easily become a political tool instead of a patriotic one....Yet even, "Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel."...Especially it gives undue license and power to authorities to suspect and dismiss teachers....It puts all teachers under suspicion....It is a "nibble" at the Bill of Rights....Truth cannot be legislated...
...asked to be chosen Prime Minister of Prussia while I was Chancellor, because as Prime Minister I could not be dismissed by the Reich President without consent of the Prussian Parliament. However, as Chancellor, the President could dismiss me," declared Bruening...