Word: rebuff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...disarmament has become well known: he opposes either unilateral or negotiated action. "At this moment in history, the disarmament concept is an effective weapon in the hands of the Communists and a danger to the freedom of mankind," he commented in August. Foreign aid, too, would receive a stern rebuff, if Goldwater were President. During his ten years in the Senate he has never recorded a vote for a final foreign aid authorization or appropriations bill...
...Rebuff at Strasbourg. De Gaulle derided the East-West test ban treaty with the gibe: "Numerous states have agreed, and for good reason: they lack the means to carry out the tests. It's a little bit like asking someone not to swim across the Channel." As for criticisms that Gaullist France has become increas ingly isolated in Western councils, De Gaulle proclaimed: "I can tell you with full knowledge of the facts that never has France been more closely supported or more sought after than today...
...stoic charm. Not for export to the U.S., of course. The sociologists would ply her with group therapy. In a few weeks she would be blaming Dad for rejecting her, and tearfully reciting her laments to peer-group pals whose lives can be blighted by a back-seat rebuff on a blind date...
...head of eight campuses and some 50,000 students, Kerr is willing to compromise only so far. He appears more than ready to assert a very sharp rebuff to anyone who threatens University prerogatives...
...grandiose, 18th century vision of an independent continent dominated by France. De Gaulle's rhetoric prompted the resignations of five French Cabinet ministers, drew worried disavowals from De Gaulle's frequent partner-in-criticism, West Germany's Konrad Adenauer, and stung Kennedy to the strongest public rebuff he has yet aimed at an Allied head of state. The issues and arguments...