Word: rebuff
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...modern President could have been less equipped by nature for political life. Painfully shy, Nixon dreaded meeting new people. Fearful of rejection, he constructed his relationships so that a rebuff, if it came, would seem to have originated with him. Fiercely proud, he could neither admit his dependence on approbation nor transcend it. Deeply insecure, he first acted as if fate had singled him out for rejection and then he contrived to make sure that his premonition came to pass. None of us really knew the inner man. More significant, each member of his entourage was acquainted with a slightly...
...three doctors and the nurse described the events of September 6, 1980 very similarly, disagreeing only as to whether or not force was involved. Carol DiPietro, a recovery room nurse at BWH, said that the three doctors made sexual advances towards her at the party. When she tried to rebuff them they pinned her arms to her sides, pushed her out of the building and forced her into...
...though much less directly, and perhaps not by her own choice--seems to be appealing to similar feelings. She is the first CCA candidate not to win the endorsement of the city's tenants, a rebuff delivered at a late summer convention. Abt has promised not to vote against rent control. But she also told city tenants that "rent control may not be the best or only way to protect low and moderate income people," and said that many condominium purchasers who wanted only to own their own homes and had "injured no one" were being caught in "complicated regulations...
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...