Word: rejecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opinion, were rallying to Stepinac's side. Summoned to Rome to coordinate protests were pink-cheeked, rosy Msgr. Angelo Roncalli of Paris; Lancashire-born Archbishop William Godfrey, apostolic delegate to Britain; Dutch national hero Cardinal de Jong. Commented Pope Pius: ". . . We have the right and the duty to reject such false accusations ... a very sad trial...
...effect, he had asked Frenchmen to reject the coalition constitution when they vote on it next month. In effect, he had said: this assembly has failed, elect another. He had also openly repudiated the majority M.R.P., the party which had backed him until his resignation from the presidency last January. The beautiful marriage of De Gaulle and the M.R.P. seemed to have gone permanently on the rocks. But he coyly refrained from betrothing himself publicly to the growing Gaullist Union, headed by René Capitant, which had announced that it would fight the constitution, put up candidates in the next...
...Most doctors and medical organizations pigheadedly denounce Sister Kenny and reject her technique. The facts: practically all orthopedists acknowledge medicine's debt to Sister Kenny and employ her treatment in whole or in part. The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis alone has spent $2 million for advancement of physical therapy, including the Kenny technique. But even when they use the Kenny treatment, most doctors agree that polio is a disease of the nervous system, vigorously reject the Kenny theory that it is primarily a muscle-&-skin disorder...
President Conant warned that while rigorous analysis and critical evaluation of all ideas is the function of the University, there is the danger of overly-destructive criticism, leading to the development of "sentimentalists who reject critical analysis and cynics who reject ideals...
...constitutional theory. The 62,567 alumni elect 30 of their number for staggered, six-year terms to membership in the inspecting body, officially called "The Honorable and Reverend, the Board of Overseers" (originally they were all clergymen). The Overseers meet eight times a year, to approve (rarely to reject) the decisions of the Corporation, which is the actual governing body. A sample list of Overseers past and present covers a lot of territory-from Massachusetts' Senator Leverett Saltonstall and San Francisco's Mayor Roger Lapham to Columnist Walter Lippmann and Poet Robert Frost...