Word: rebuff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...obvious rebuff to Administration recommendations, the House, by a 204-to-177 vote, tacked onto a supplementary appropriations request for the Commodity Credit Corp. a prohibition against further sales of U.S. foodstuffs to Nasser's United Arab Republic. If approved by the Senate, the ban would hold up $37 million worth of food remaining to be shipped under a three-year contract that expires in June. In going against Administration proposals, 128 Republicans were joined by 76 Democrats, 16 of them from the New York City area, where the Arab vote is minuscule but the Jewish vote...
Genuine Scare. A few weeks ago, De Gaulle instructed Finance Minister Valery Giscard d'Estaing to strike the U.S. on its soft, golden underbelly. Giscard undertook the task with some pleasure: he was still smarting from his rebuff by U.S. and British moneymen at last fall's meeting of the International Monetary Fund in Tokyo, where he tried to get the IMF to adopt a new international currency based on gold that would favor the French. During last month's British money crisis he also got a genuine scare that both the pound and the dollar might...
Gartner stressed the importance of hiring "visible Negroes," not as "show-pieces," but to increase the flow of Negro applicants. Unless Negroes have reason to believe that a business does not have a policy of discrimination, they are reluctant to apply and risk one more rebuff, he said...
...couldn't make out whether she was agitated; and I was determined to avoid a false step. What really happened was that we were both in that state, but neither wanted to take the responsibility of declaring it: the ghost of respectability, perhaps, but also the fear of rebuff and making fools of ourselves. ... The fire began to die and the room to get cold. Should I put a coal on the fire? It would seem to suggest too coarsely that I took it for granted we were going to continue sitting there. . . . So I didn...
...hopes for a British inspired Soviet-American detente, and the election of John F. Kennedy encouraged the press to portray him as the walrus-like vestige of a less-enlightened age. Finally, within the last year, the Tories have been embarrassed by the Skybolt fudge and DeGaulle's rebuff of England's application for entrance into the Common Market...