Word: rebuff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Major General Duong Van Minh attempted to return to his native South Viet Nam in 1965, the tower at Saigon's Tan Son Nhut airport refused to grant his plane landing clearance and he had to head back into exile in neighboring Thailand. It was a humiliating rebuff for burly "Big Minh,"* the man who ousted Ngo Dinh Diem in 1963 and who rose to chief of state before he was shelved and then banished in a subsequent coup. Last year Minh tried another route-by filing as a presidential candidate-only to have his application rejected...
...time, Singer tries to make a lasting impression on his fellow sufferers, but one by one they rebuff him. When McCann dies, Singer, by now robbed not only of his senses but his sensibilities, takes his own life. Only when he is gone do his erstwhile friends realize the extent of his empathy...
...This rebuff loosened the logjam a little because SFAC members now felt free to take positions without having to worry about automatic approval--just as the House of Lords feels a certain freedom about initiating daring legislation secure in the knowledge that the Commons will subject everything to close scrutiny...
Despite-or perhaps because of-President Johnson's declaration of noncandidacy, primaries in Texas and Florida last week resulted in a repudiation of his policies and a rebuff for his associates...
...trailing in an expectant pack behind him. "The ceiling," he added, tossing off billions, "has been fixed at $180.1." Thus one of the most important legislative battles of recent years neared its climax. In the process, Lyndon Johnson, once the master of Congress, suffered the most decisive and humiliating rebuff of his presidency from his former colleagues on Capitol Hill...