Word: rebuff
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nevertheless, 39 Republicans ended up voting against sending the bill back to committee for paring. The White House threatened to veto the bill, and House Republican leaders say they have the votes to make the rebuff stick...
Your Essay "Where Have All the Insults Gone?" [Aug. 31] reminded me of a classic rebuff uttered by American Congressman and Statesman Thaddeus Stevens. While crossing a mud-covered Lancaster, Pa., street on a wooden plank in the mid-1800s, Stevens confronted a political adversary coming toward him on the same narrow walkway. His rival called out in disdain, "I never step aside for scoundrels!" Stevens quickly stepped back off the plank and into the ankle-deep mud and replied, "I, on the other hand, always...
...reelection, omitting the customary expression of confidence, Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev cabled somewhat warmer greetings to Warsaw's leaders as the Poles celebrated their national day last week. The message declared the Polish party "undoubtedly capable of rallying all the working people and stirring them to a resolute rebuff to anarchy and counterrevolution...
...Vietnamese and on its northern with the Soviets to launch such an adventure, which would surely rupture its ties with the U.S. Peking's goal, in the judgment of China-watchers, is to weaken Taiwan diplomatically, politically and militarily until it will no longer feel strong enough to rebuff overtures for negotiations...
...part of my body!" Cellist-Conductor Mstislav Rostropovich exclaimed in Washington. The Russian é migré maestro could be excused the hyperbole. Other Soviet figures have sought artistic freedom in the West, but few could match the poignant symbolism of last week's defection drama. In a stunning rebuff to Kremlin cultural politics, the son and grandson of the Soviet Union's most celebrated contemporary composer the late Dmitri Shostakovich, decided to join Rostropovich in exile and petition the U.S. State Department for asylum...