Word: rebuff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite the player-owner meeting and the rebuff the union received in Pittsburgh, Murphy plans to continue the Guild along the same lines that it has been running, that is, to attempt to get all the ball players to join and to get recognition from the club owners...
...from Germany, found themselves suddenly in clear opposition to Russia. Said one member of the French Politbureau: " 'It never rains but it pours' was not a proverb invented by Karl Marx, but as far as we are concerned, it might as well have been. After the constitutional rebuff, the near defeat at the elections, last week's slapping down in the Chamber, and now this...
...rejecting a Communist-sired Constitution for their Fourth Republic (TIME, May 13), the voters of France had given the French Communist Party, second in Europe only to the Party in Russia, its sharpest rebuff since liberation. They had also checked Soviet Russia's ideological and political infiltration westward...
...Orderly Revolution." But the rebuff to the comrades was not necessarily a rebuff to left-of-center reforms, to the "revolution by law" on which all major French parties are agreed. Cabled a TIME Paris correspondent: "If the French were asked tomorrow, 'Do you want a Constitution different from any you ever had before, with special emphasis on social reform?' the answer would be an overwhelming 'Yes.' France's whole temper is still one of orderly revolution...
...depend on the psychiatrist and accept him as a "supporting presence," he is likely to lose the outward signs of his neurosis-a stiff leg, deafness, forgetfulness, phobia. But if the psychiatrist neglects him or ships him off too soon to another station where he gets some thoughtless rebuff, the neurotic symptom will return. Bad news from home sometimes causes a relapse. "Time is necessary for the patient . . . to test the human environment's sincerity. . . . The Army is not conducive to such testing...