Word: reject
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ahead with its unprovoked, one-sided buildup." The speech received only perfunctory applause. Said a delegate: "We see his voice as a voice of the party's past." At the urging of former Chancellor Willy Brandt and SPD Floor Leader Hans-Jochen Vogel, the conference voted overwhelmingly to reject the new missiles. Only 14 delegates supported Schmidt...
...your article on the modern design show in Philadelphia [Oct. 24]: Americans do not reject the "form" of modern design. It is the materials that they resist. People want objects that reflect warmth, texture and the patina that develops with use. These qualities are found in wood, not chrome, glass and polyvinyl. As a cabinetmaker, I believe that it is not ornament that is demanded, but natural materials and some evidence that a human hand has touched the piece...
...like to talk reverently about "the energy that comes off the mountains." They mean spiritual, natural, ancestral energy, not the kind that could come off the high-tech Machu Picchu on the hill. In Los Alamos, the holistic weapons careerists in the cafeteria choose beansprouts and yogurt and reject actual nuclear war as theoretically implausible. It is downright rude in Los Alamos for an outsider-or even an insider-to raise questions concerning war or peace. The first causes moral qualm, the second unemployment...
...fear the political effects even more. All Grenadians recognize that our island needs economic help. No one wishes to reject U.S. aid. But because of our circumstances, Grenada could easily, almost unconsciously, slip into the role of a U.S. satellite. We are concerned that our rescue from the terror of the "revolutionary armed forces" may have left us with an American godfather willing to foot the bills, while obliging us to play the role of Washington's little...
...most alarming passage was the one in which Kennedy promised to "pay any price ... to assure the survival ... of liberty." The revisionists have always seen that line as a precis of the mentality that brought on the war. But both Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. and Theodore Sorensen reject the notion that the Inaugural speech was a prelude to cowboy interventionism. "It was," says