Word: rebuff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...today's monetary system and a return to the gold standard. The other five Common Mar ket countries rejected the idea on the ground that it was no time to debate the design of a new system when the old one verged on collapse. This was a sharp rebuff for the French, who have hoarded gold and warred against the U.S. dollar as a reserve currency...
...henceforth inapplicable." Its continuance, he maintained, would "condemn the free world to grave economic, social and political trials." De Gaulle's attitude was understandable. By committing themselves in Washington to the two-tier gold system, the five other members of the Common Market had handed France a remarkable rebuff. They not only flouted their partner's wishes, but did so without consultation...
...Minnesota senior Senator took the three Minneapolis-St. Paul district with 60 to 70 per cent of the vote. Vice-President Hubert H. Humphrey has always been strong in his home area, and Tuesday's results are regarded by many observers as a strong rebuff. Four members of his own family, including his own son and daughter, were defeated in the voting for district delegates in the McCarthy landslide...
Immediate Rebuff. Next day, the strike was on. Refusing to knuckle under to what he called "blackmail, brute force and muscle," Lindsay fought back as best he could with legal action and calls for unity. He was determined to bring order into the city's chaotic labor relations and to counter the threat of public strikes that, though banned by state law, have been used to win fat contract settlements. "Now is the time and here is the place," he declared, "for the city to determine what it is made...
...York to Chicago. One airline went so far as to refuse to let a woman passenger keep her crutches at her seat, insisting that they must be stowed in the coat compartment. Coeds have been barred from boarding with stuffed shopping bags, and hippies have faced a similar rebuff. Last week a teen-ager headed for San Francisco in Levi's, sweatshirt and bare feet painted bright red approached a TWA gate in Chicago. "You can't get aboard," ruled the agent, "unless you wash your feet-and put on some shoes...