Word: rebuff
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...Middle East. The Israelis were naturally delighted, but the letter could turn out to be double-edged. Although it confirmed Israel's almost mystical belief in rockbed U.S. support, that confirmation could prove to be too emphatic. Kissinger may resent tins tactic as a not-very-subtle personal rebuff. Sadat is likely to be dismayed at such overwhelming support of ins foe. If so, Ford's talks with inm may prove to be difficult indeed...
...conference's rebuff to Wilson was unprecedented but hardly unexpected. During the past month, virtually every institutional body of the labor movement has firmly opposed Wilson on this issue. The powerful Trades Union Congress, the party's National Executive Committee, 145 of Labor's 318 M.P.s and almost a third of the Labor Cabinet have publicly broken ranks with their leader. The split over the EEC coincides with an increasingly bitter party battle over economic policy, and Wilson, a man who has traditionally placed party unity above all, is now presiding over what may prove...
...been putting pressure on Sadat to maintain a unified Arab front, which lately has shown some signs of strain. Two weeks ago the Palestinians publicly announced that they were sending a delegation of second-ranking P.L.O. executives to Cairo to discuss the Kissinger negotiations with Sadat. In a sharp rebuff, Sadat said that he would discuss such matters only with the P.L.O. leadership (meaning Arafat); the delegation never arrived. In what was apparently the result of a bald attempt to embarrass Sadat, the rubber dinghy used by the fedayeen at Tel Aviv last week carried a marking, "Egyptian Army Seamen...
...irony, too mined with paradox, to prevail. In The Wreck of the Deutschland (the poem, not the flick), one of the nuns at the moment of her death "christens her wild worst Best," just as Hopkins himself struggled a lifetime to confirm precisely in private pain and worldy rebuff some clear sign of God's forgiving love. Enderby attempts to perform the same sort of personal miracle. Desperately he tries to see the cruelty, vulgarity and violence not as correctable aberrations but as signs that man is still free, but still in need of God. The attitude makes...
...persuade her to publish. That would cut both an end from her existence--separating her from a "Kief, hashish, and opium pipe," a single staunch friend--and a beginning--because she filters her stories' "myth" and "poem" out of her diary's spreading tide. To Macmillan Co.'s rebuff of her novels as esoteric Nin counters: "An adolescent culture shows the adolescent incapacity to admire, to respect or to evaluate...