Word: rebuff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...combined against him. Elected at first with a precarious majority, for the last five years his government has had to depend on Labor support to hold office. Month ago, his own political stock soaring as a result of the Anglo-Irish treaty, "Dev" shrewdly seized upon a minor government rebuff as an excuse to dissolve Parliament and go to the country...
...British commission, under Sir Frederick Leith-Ross, Chief Economic Adviser to His Majesty's Government, came home from Berlin last week to report that the only payment the Reich will consider is one in goods. His Majesty's Government met further rebuff with a German reminder that Britain had refused to take over the debts of the Boers...
Coach Mann, disgruntled over the nationwide ballyhoo given Yale's invincibility, demanded a showdown. But Yale year after year had no open date on its schedule. This rebuff, although probably unintentional, precipitated one of the most publicized coaching feuds in collegiate history. Coach Kiphuth frankly disliked his aggressive Midwestern rival, saw no use for his mechanical rabbits and other training gadgets used to develop stamina and pace. Coach Mann looked with disdain on his Eastern rival who had taught himself to teach swimmers by watching others swim...
Coming as a sharp rebuff to those in favor of erasing the law from State ledgers, the action yesterday was believed by most observers to bury the repeal move for a year at least. There is still a chance that the senate will accept reconsideration today in a move preliminary to sending the bill to the House of Representatives...
When the Japanese Government came through 48 hours later with Rebuff No. 2, refusing to send a delegation to Brussels and urging the Conference to face "realities" (see col. j), there was no stomach for courting a Rebuff No. 3 among the tea-drinking statesmen of the Great Powers.* The so-called "Big Three"-Their Excellencies Norman Davis of Washington, Anthony Eden of London and Yvon Delbos of Paris-decided to wind up the Conference at once if possible, joined in drafting for this purpose a resolution in which the Conference was to adopt toward Japan an attitude of purely...