Word: reject
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...return for the Christian Democrats' vote." Against these fulminations, Don Camillo found himself supported and praised by the Vatican's newspaper Osservatore Romano. Don Camillo, it said, correctly "deemed it improper that solemn homage to Christ should be rendered 'with their feet' by people who reject Him with their minds...
...soon found that if vend ing-machine operators had been crooked, the customers were worse. In its first year Leverone's company took in $30,000 worth of slugs. Undaunted, Leverone and his engineers installed magnets to winnow out iron slugs, developed a three-fingered scanning device to reject slugs with holes in them. To reject more sophisticated slugs, he inserted a small anvil in his machines just below the coin slot; coins that were either too hard or too soft bounced off the anvil into slots leading to the coin-return chute. When cheaters dis covered slugs with...
...sent during the first plan); but nothing less will keep pace with the growth and hopes of India's population. Telling his followers that "it will take many five-year plans before we can bring about a Socialist society," Nehru realistically last week persuaded parliamentary hotheads to reject a measure which would clamp a $5,000-a-year ceiling on income. "Socialism does not mean a dead level of poverty," he snapped...
...argue on of gods, not God, And might all strife resign, If only I could find in yours, What you reject in mine...
...unacceptable element in the self and projecting it onto others, e.g., man who bangs desk and shouts: "Who's excited? You're excited, not me!" Reaction formation covers conversion of unacceptable hostility into cloying solicitousness, seen in many do-gooders and some overprotective mothers who unconsciously reject their children...