Word: rebuff
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...have decided to wait out the U.S. elections. The President has so angered the Soviets that even his occasional efforts at accommodation-toning down his anti-Soviet rhetoric, accepting a Soviet proposal for a ban on the use of force in Europe-have met with a cold rebuff. Says Radomir Bogdanov of Moscow's Institute for U.S.A. and Canada Studies: "Our relations are at the lowest point since World War II, and what is very disturbing is that a kind of hopelessness is setting in, a feeling here that it is impossible to improve relations with these people...
...political choices to cast ballots in their country's most open and fraud-free elections in more than a decade. In the race for a new 88-seat Constituent Assembly, citizens gave a strong show of of support to moderate civilian political parties and issued a sharp rebuff to the 8 military and the landowning oligarchy that have ruled the country since a CIA-backed coup...
...kept Richard Nixon at the center of our political life for nearly 40 years. Even today he runs a kind of shadow presidency that speaks with the tempering that has come from defeat after defeat but still endures, urging the likes of Shultz to come back stronger after each rebuff...
...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...