Word: rebuff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Approved, in a House-Senate conference that virtually assured passage by both houses, a $46.9 billion defense appropriations bill for fiscal 1966-including a special $1.7 billion war chest for Viet Nam requested by the President in August. In a rebuff to Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, conferees rejected his merge-and-conserve proposal to make the organized Army Reserve part of the National Guard, reducing their combined total manpower from 700,000 to 550,000 and simplifying the chain of command...
...stop? And we've never had any reply." Even the intentional five-day lull in U.S. bombing last May failed to draw a response from intransigent North Viet Nam. Britain's Commonwealth peace mission has not got very far either. Last week, after pondering Hanoi's rebuff of the mission, Harold Wilson gamely sent a low-level British official off to Hanoi on a "private" visit, apparently hoping to get Ho to change his mind. Few held out hope that Ho would...
...Thant, LL.D., Secretary-General of the United Nations. Neither rebuff nor slight has marred the dignity of your office, which is the world's best hope for a government under law which transcends nations...
Wilson, under pressure from his left wing and fearful of nuclear proliferation, was determined to head off the U.S.-sponsored multilateral force. It was on this urgent mission that he made his first trip to the U.S. as British leader. He half expected a rebuff from Lyndon Johnson; instead Johnson promptly agreed to postpone the whole idea, to Wilson's enormous relief...
...gruff timbre of true paper tigers. Both Ho Chi Minh and Mao Tse-tung sneeringly declined to receive British Envoy Patrick Gordon Walker, who had planned a visit to discuss negotiations over Viet Nam. The U.N.'s Secretary-General U Thant got a more raucous rebuff: "U Thant is knocking at the wrong door," bellowed Peking to the suggestion of U.N. involvement. Ho dismissed Lyndon Johnson's offer of "unconditional discussions" over Viet Nam as "stinking of poison gas," and demanded complete withdrawal of U.S. forces as the starting point for any truce talks...