Word: rejected
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Roosevelt may have pondered: "I desire that you return to work. ... If you refuse, each of you will be barred from employment in any war industry in the community in which the strike occurs for a period of one year . . . and the draft boards will be instructed to reject any claim of exemption based on your alleged usefulness on war production...
...dispute between Chiang Kai-shek's Government and the Communists, appealed to Communist Leaders Mao Tse-tung and Chu Teh to end the "undiscipline" of Communist Army units and join the Government in a fresh attack on Japan. In Vichy the French Government announced that it would reject Japan's terms for ending the Thailand-Indo-China war, that French Indo-China would resume fighting rather than give Thailand 50,000 square miles of territory which Japan would presumably occupy. To keep from losing more face the Japanese mediators persuaded the belligerents to extend the armistice...
Retorted Mr. Hart: "I reject the socialistic viewpoint contained in the Rugg books. . . . All that I can see in this haze is that some of you want us to merge ourselves into an internationalistic, socialistic type of democracy...
...simple man," says Cash, ". . . rarely has any considerable capacity for the real." If the naked struggle for existence is relaxed even a little, he becomes a romantic and a hedonist. He develops a limitless credulity, and begins to "accept what pleases him and reject what does not." In every plantation white these traits were strongly enhanced by the Negro, a champion pleasure man and dreamer. As for the mass of poor whites-locked off on poor land from the plantation world, indifferent to labor-theirs was "a tragic descent into unreality," a "void of pointless leisure...
...horns through another ten minutes, finally expires in sheer exhaustion. Nobody, I say, could honestly claim this to be great, or even good, music. But hearing a thing like it now and then allows the public to re-evaluate its critical standards, and to re-assert or reject its opinion of specific works. For the good music to be rediscovered and best appreciated, a lot of tripe has to be dragged up with it. Besides, many people can get a pseudo-scholarly pleasure out of recognizing certain features even in a piece of very bad music. Everyone has heard...