Word: rebuff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many cases the Government could hardly disclose all details of such an eavesdrop? Attorney General John Mitchell called the court's decision "a great disappointment," and Solicitor General Erwin Griswold took the unusual step of filing a Government petition for a rehearing. Last week, in a speedy rebuff to the Government, the Supreme Court turned Griswold down...
Only after the Albequerque rebuff did SDS find the YMCA. The organization is suing both the Board of Regents and the Albequerque City Council for breach of contract...
Nixon did not take the rebuff well. Yet last summer, the National Committee, presumably with Nixon's blessing, re-elected Bliss and gave him a $10,000 raise in salary...
...said Richard Nixon to his party workers during the campaign. So he said again when he appeared before his followers to accept and savor his victory. Now he could forget the defeats, both the hairbreadth miss of 1960 and the humiliating rebuff of 1962. Now he could put behind him the fear that maybe he was, after all, a born loser. Now he could relish the fruits of unremitting labor for his party, of countless fund-raising dinners and victory banquets and formula speeches in remote towns. Now he could demonstrate to the nation-and perhaps to himself- just what...
Carter's staff had another explanation for the board's action. In their statement, the lawyers claimed that Steel was fired as a rebuff to the legal department, which has lately taken on cases that the board considers too controversial. N.A.A.C.P. lawyers, for example, have sought the release of such "political prisoners" as Martin Sostre, a black nationalist bookseller who was sent to jail on narcotics charges in Buffalo last March. Whatever the board's motives, the N.A.A.C.P. must recruit replacement lawyers without delay. The association is currently involved in some 150 court actions, and although Carter...