Word: rebuff
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...results of the balloting, however, promise to give recurring headaches to Figueiredo and his conservative Social Democratic Party (P.D.S.). In the process of choosing thousands of city councilors, mayors, state assemblymen, federal congressmen, senators and state governors, the voters delivered an unmistakable rebuff to the military-sponsored authoritarian regime. At week's end, results were still trickling in from the balloting exercise, in which voters in Brazil's remote Amazonian hinterlands were forced to travel by truck, airplane or even dugout canoe in order to register their electoral preference...
...last week's rebuff to the National Party cast doubt on Botha's ability to win support for his plan from many white Afrikaners. With more than 600 industries, including the world's largest gold refinery, Germiston (pop. 216,123) generally reflects the sentiments of the conservative industrial workers and farmers who have formed the backbone of the National Party. Said the pro-government Johannesburg Citizen: "The battle for Afrikanerdom is on with a vengeance, and the politics of South Africa will not be the same again...
...amendment. In St. Louis his backdrop is grinning black children. Last week Reagan tried waging diplomacy by camera. White House spokesmen pointedly referred newsmen to how unsmiling the President was in greeting Israel's Foreign Minister Shamir. If this was meant to signal a new kind of diplomatic rebuff, it didn't overwhelm the Israelis, who went on bombing Beirut...
...Syrian rebuff effectively ended a tenuous four-day truce between the two armies. Heading north from their fortified positions in Baabda, Israeli armor cut the Beirut-Damascus highway just west of Jamhur, less than a mile from Syrian tank and infantry posts. By seizing Beirut's surrounding hilltops, the Israelis choked off all main supply and exit routes for the Syrian and Palestinian units remaining in the capital...
...troubled somewhat by D.M. 's professional posture. The analyst has fallen in love with E.M., a lovely young actress, and, shades of old Jung, she is his patient! D.M. calls on me for advice from time to time -a bit of effrontery I would normally rebuff if it were not that the whole affair is just for a movie called Lovesick due out next year. Dudley Moore, 47, is the analyst and Elizabeth McGovern, 20, is a delightful choice as his patient. Sir Alec Guinness, 68, is playing me. Since childhood, I have always dreamed of Redford or Newman...