Word: rebuff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most men would snap at an honorary degree from the University of the South, popularly known as Sewanee, which for 104 years has been an Episcopal-controlled* showpiece atop the Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee. Yet last week Sewanee got a flat rebuff from its own Russian-born Eugene M. Kayden, professor emeritus of economics and translator of the poems of Boris Pasternak...
...waited a few days, it could have presented Newton N. Minow, the new chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, with the plaque for "most impolitic performance of the year in a good cause." As things stand now, however, Mr. Minow will receive no plaque, but, instead, an ill-deserved rebuff...
...rebuff at La Coruña is the latest in series that apparently began with the accession of Pope John XXIII two years ago. Once the Roman Catholic Church was only too happy to acknowledge its debt to Franco, the defender of the faith in Spain's bloody civil war. He restored church property and reinstated religious education in the schools. And he held tightly to such ancient ecclesiastical privileges of the Spanish state as its right to nominate bishops. Franco, the little (5 ft. 4 in.) son of a provincial naval paymaster, even insisted on his right...
Mississippi: Democratic regulars will rebuff Governor Ross Barnett's independent-electors movement, win by a trimmed majority...
...rebuff the Soviet challenge to Hammarskjold's Congo policy, Wadsworth proposed a forthright resolution that would bar any state from sending military supplies into the Congo except through the U.N. Toward 1 o'clock one morning last week, a modified version of Wadsworth's resolution, presented by Ceylon and Tunisia, was put to the vote. Stubbornly calling for outright repudiation of Hammarskjold's acts, Zorin cast Russia's 90th veto in the Security Council. Wadsworth immediately called for an emergency General Assembly meeting under the "Uniting for Peace" rule, which permits the Assembly to take...