Word: rejects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...could make impression enough to set up severe conflicts and cause actual mental illness after their return to the U.S. In one case, an Army sergeant who was too confused to answer many questions by U.S. interrogators became ill because he feared that people in his home town would reject him as a traitor...
Back to Vulcan. The metal sculpture school has roots as far back as Vulcan. Its immediate antecedent is constructivism, proclaimed by two Russian-born brothers, Naum Gabo (now in the U.S.) and Antoine Pevsner (now in Paris), who in 1920 revolted against cubism: "Depth alone can express space. We reject mass as an element of sculpture . . ." By approaching the problem like engineers, Gabo and Pevsner (see color page opposite) turned out metal objects that have the smooth, polished beauty-and the coldness-of a mathematical equation...
...best ways to stir up a Congressman is to reject or to cut the appropriations he wants. In this session of Congress no one has refused and cut more than crusty old (76) Clarence Cannon, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee. Last week the House cut back at Missourian Cannon...
...manly sun priority over the womanly moon. They made a hero out of a man like Hercules, changing him from a mere lover-victim of the goddess into a lusty seducer of hapless nymphs and a symbol of strength. Socrates and Plato, Graves insists, went so far as to reject the female element completely, injected into Western veins a strong shot of romantic homosexuality that persists to this...
...crop, Secretary Benson cut the proposed support price again, to reduce production further. In last week's election, farmers were faced with a hard choice: to accept the quota restrictions and a support price of $1.81 a bushel for their wheat (76% of parity), or to reject the quotas and sell all they can at whatever price the market would bring. Without quotas, the supported price would be only $1.19 a bushel and to get that, farmers still would have to accept acreage restrictions. "It's not too good a choice," said South Dakota's Senator Francis...