Word: rebuff
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...thousands howled their rage outside his residence, weary Nobusuke Kishi met with his Cabinet for the second time in 24 hours. After a brief session, he emerged to announce to newsmen the decision to ask President Eisenhower to cancel his trip. Then, in a gesture that emphasized the rebuff the U.S. had suffered, Foreign Minister Aiichiro Fujiyama formally reported the decision to a dark, ruggedly handsome man who bears a name all Japan once honored. For Douglas MacArthur II, U.S. Ambassador to Tokyo and the principal architect of present-day U.S. policy toward Japan, Kishi's retreat...
...There was widespread admiration through the free world for Dwight Eisenhower's dignified rebuff of Khrushchev's wild demands, but a concern-not confined to the U.S.-that Washington's handling of the U-2 affair had been clumsy and inept...
...Nigerian Moslems, heady with a December election victory that kept their Moslem Prime Minister in power, this rebuff was evidence that the Graham crusade (actually planned long before) had been staged to help put the Christians in political control. Moslem pamphlets circulated during Graham meetings, presenting "Five Points to Remember: Jesus was not the Son of God, did not die on the Cross, was not resurrected, did not go to heaven, will not return...
Smarting under this rebuff, Adenauer proclaimed his intention to run for the presidency himself, and all Germany applauded his solution. Adenauer thought that the ceremonial job might be converted into a post as prestigious as that occupied in France by his friend Charles de Gaulle, but after prolonged study of the West German constitution his lawyers said no. All the while, inside the Christian Democratic Party, a bitter fight was developing over who should succeed Adenauer as chancellor. The old man himself favored Finance Minister Franz Etzel, a quiet corporation lawyer who could be counted upon to accept tutelage...
...around to the cold war last week-and declared himself a neutral. "Why choose sides?" he asked a rally of 100,000 Havana workers. "Why say that all America must join one of the bands? Why not proclaim our right to live?" Castro's neutralism was a forthright rebuff to the U.S., but in expressing it he also slapped down one of his oldest supporters, ex-President José ("Pepe") Figueres of Costa Rica, who sat near by as a guest of honor...