Word: rejected
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Plush records the gradual social ascent of the muttony Moorhouses during the Victorian Era: their little intrigues, their innumerable dinners and tea parties, their meandering, witless conversations and their damp love affairs. (Like all good bourgeois, the Moorhouses reject the wild delights of love for the solid comforts of money and status...
...adamant, eleventh-hour decision, the Student Council last night voted overwhelmingly to cancel distribution of a poll that would have given University students the opportunity to accept or reject a voluntary food rationing program at Harvard. The poll was to be taken today...
...basic question that confronts us," he said, 'is whether or not a communist is a liberal. We feel that any organization has a right, on the basis of its avowed purposes, to determine who should be a member. We reject easy communists and undeviating supporters of the CP line. We merely ask others to agree that the HLU should be for liberals only...
...opponents damn him wholly, and his admirers praise him indiscriminately. Where a man generates such violent repulsion or attraction, it is difficult to discover a sizable number of appraisers who are able to seek out the undeniable merit in his position and at the same time criticize and reject what is impractical or undesirable. The press has been of little help to fair minded critics. All too often Mr. Wallace is portrayed as all good...
...Cairo, members of the devoutly anti-foreign Moslem Brotherhood heard a rumor that U.N.'s Security Council might reject Egypt's demand that British troops clear out of the Nile Valley. Five thousand Caireńes thereupon marched through the streets chanting: ". . . Egypt defies the Security Council! Egypt defies the whole world...