Word: rebuff
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...marauding murder machine is a bandanna around the forehead; and the one time the President tried to cut himself in on Boss territory ("America's future rests ... in the message of hope in songs of ... New Jersey's own Bruce Springsteen"), he was met with an oblique but sharp rebuff. "I kinda got to wondering what his favorite album must've been," Springsteen speculated at a Pittsburgh concert. "I don't think he's been listening to this one," he added, tearing into a ripsaw version of Johnny 99, about an unemployed factory worker who shoots a hotel night clerk...
When Yale was called for a careless too-many-men penalty 11:15 into added time, the Crimson’s lethal top power-play unit was offered a chance at redemption. After Love was forced to rebuff several dangerous looks, the puck came back out to junior forward Julie Chu at the point. Chu cycled it to Vaillancourt at the left face-off circle, who stepped forward before rifling her shot inside the near post for the victory...
When Yale was called for a careless too-many-men penalty 11:15 into added time, the Crimson’s lethal top power-play unit was offered a chance at redemption. After Love was forced to rebuff several dangerous looks, the puck came back out to junior forward Julie Chu at the point. Chu cycled it to Vaillancourt at the left face-off circle, who stepped forward before rifling her shot inside the near post for the victory...
...Buckingham Palace does not make a clearer statement explaining why the Queen will not attend the wedding, it will be impossible to pretend that this is not, in fact, a royal rebuff. If the Queen has some personal distaste for the wedding itself that would justify her matrimonial absence, it can no longer remain hidden. As the head of a Royal Family wanting in popularity, the Queen has a responsibility to improve relations with her subjects. And, in the eyes of the British people, only 47 percent of whom believe the monarchy should be maintained after the Queen?...
...magazine’s content? We might, of course, play the ad absurdum game where I suggest Harvard Students for the Confederacy apply for a grant for a “Confederate Flag Day,” or worse, in order to arrive at a suggestion the council would rebuff because of content. (Incidentally, I imagine such an event would have, for many of the reasons H Bomb will, a “high projected student impact...