Word: rejects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Khrushchev baited his trap with the most abject apology any Communist leader ever made. Tito's ejection from the Cominform was a terrible mistake, said Khrushchev. "We sincerely regret what happened, and resolutely reject the things which occurred, one after the other, during that period." He produced a scapegoat. The trouble, he said, all came because of "the provocative role which was played in the relations between Yugoslavia and the U.S.S.R. by enemies of the people-Beria, Abakumov and others-who have been unmasked." (Beria and Abakumov, tidily removed by execution, are always useful on such occasions...
...West, then, seems to be in a fairly good immediate position but in a very tenuous one in the long run. At the moment, with Adenauer's government violently against neutralization, we can reject with impunity any Russian proposal for reunification on that basis. But such a negative policy is not enough. It would be far better to go to the conference with a positive proposal for reunification on the basis of free alliance, which the Russians would refuse. This at least would put the Russians would refuse. This at least would put the Russians, not the West...
Taking action on a similar cross country request, the Council voted to reject it outright on the grounds that there is not sufficient interest in the sport. "We feel, however," White said, "that cross country is otherwise qualified for major status. Cross country men certainly train as hard as those in other sports...
...current president of the Foundation, philanthropy, like the old Mormon defense of polygamy, "is a hard thing to live." Gaither's staff receives more than 7000 letters a month, many of them seeking part, if not all, of the Foundation's annual income. As a result, the Foundation must reject far more requests than it can accept...
Indiana's Jenner introduced a resolution that would have committed the Senate, in advance, to reject any negotiated settlement relinquishing any territory to Communists anywhere. Cried Jenner: "The air is full of foreboding that a carefully laid plan is under way for the United States to give up, bit by bit, its commitments in the Formosa Strait . . . Like Gulliver in Lilliput, the great strength of the United States has been pinned down by men too small for it to notice . . . We must have a formula to prevent surrender or appeasement, and that formula must be so clear . . . that...