Word: rebuff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...French Foreign Office spokesman blasted Law 75 as a fait accompli and "a brutal rebuff." Foreign Minister Schuman, who has much more understanding of the Anglo-U.S. position than most Frenchmen have, called in the British and U.S. ambassadors, handed them a protest. In Washington, French Ambassador Henri Bonnet protested to Under Secretary of State Robert Lovett. The French got a promise that the Clay-Robertson action would be immediately reviewed by Washington and London...
Loss of Face. Molotov's return was the single most important fact in last week's installment of the East-West crisis. It showed that his absence had not been planned as a rebuff and a "delaying action"; it showed that the Kremlin was not willing that the battle of Berlin should play itself out in the strong-arm terms of Western airlift v. Soviet blockade. It helped to dispel, or at least palliate, a war scare in London, where Foreign Minister Bevin had gravely briefed a grave House of Commons. In answer to a question from Winston...
...Ruth Moffett, et al.-with whom he was seen in public; and 2) the young, eager and not too prudish unknowns with whom he was almost never seen in public. Hughes has a harsh word for the latter: he calls them "crows." But even from them he fears a rebuff. It is part of Meyer's job to see that the green light is up before Hughes ever appears on the scene...
Clear-Cut Corner. It is an arena in which new gladiators arrive daily to risk ulcers, anxiety, tension, loneliness, bruised shins or the awful rebuff of failure in a quest for excitement, gold or glory. It is the Big Bonanza of the western world. Wrote an anonymous poet...
Further Council action, in the event of a rebuff by the Faculty Committee, was a distinct possibility, Bingham said. As chairman of the Council sub-committee on student activities, he declared that he would ask the Council to press the matter, probably at its next meeting...