Word: rebuff
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Afghanistan: Washington, assisted by Peking, provoked the "Afghan crisis" so as to free its hands completely for a policy of opposition to détente. And when we helped our neighbor Afghanistan give a rebuff to the aggression, repulse the attacks of the bandit gangs operating primarily from Pakistan territory, Washington and Peking raised an unprecedented hue and cry. The Soviet Union was accused of all imaginable sins: an ambition to make a breakthrough to the warm seas, an intention to pocket foreign oil, etc. The actual reason for that campaign of slander was the collapse of the plans...
...Neill appeared at the Executive mansion on the day of the speech for a conference with the President, the gatekeepers would not let him in. The rotund, white-maned Speaker of the House had to fish around for some identification. O'Neill handled the unintentional rebuff amiably enough, but once he got inside, his Irish was up over an entirely different matter. The Democratic congressional leader vigorously berated the President for deceiving him, and the American public, on the mission of U.S. troops in Lebanon. "Every time I talk to you, you say things are going well...
...reported last week that "fierce, mighty weapons"-presumably, short-range SS-21, SS-22 and SS-23 missiles-had already been installed in East Germany and Czechoslovakia to counter the NATO threat. A Soviet officer quoted in the newspaper explained that "we must be prepared to give a due rebuff to the aggressor." But if Moscow was stiff as ever about intermediate-range missiles, Gro myko did suggest that the Soviets would return, probably in mid-March, to the Vienna negotiations on the reduction of conventional forces in Europe, which the Soviets "suspended" just before Christmas...
...contrasted sharply with his reputation as a right-wing extremist. The boyish-looking onetime Salvadoran police major, now 40, has consistently tried to delay implementation of U.S.-sponsored efforts at land reform in El Salvador. Last November, D'Aubuisson was refused an entry visa to the U.S., a rebuff linked to his alleged ties to the country's nefarious right-wing death squads. For the present, however, he wishes to appear a man of the people, and is running hard in a long-awaited presidential-election campaign that is crucial both to his country's future...
...soon a "Recall Blanchard" movement was launched. Within weeks, petitions were circulating across the state to gather the 760,000 signatures necessary to call a special election. Although Lauve and his followers missed the mark, they did get 522,000 names during the allotted 90-day period, a significant rebuff to the tax increase and enough to surprise the initially unconcerned Blanchard...