Word: rejects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that his department chiefs had gone over his head to ask the legislature for $100 million more than he had budgeted, he gave them a severe dressing-down and a reminder: "I must reluctantly but sharply call to your attention the fact that the governor has veto power ... to reject items in the appropriation bill." He also demanded and got tighter controls around the statehouse, on everything from inventories to excessively long coffee breaks. The result was a new realization that the governor meant business...
...reduced to a pocket which has to defend itself against the Egyptian people. The people of the Middle East have declared that the defense of the Middle East is their own concern. They are anxious to take the complete responsibility of the defense of this area. They categorically reject any interference from the West . . . We have declared our readiness to maintain the Suez Canal base in perfect shape and therefore accepted to employ British technicians until the time when we shall have sufficient technicians...
...Shadow. "We trust Americans to recognize propaganda and to reject obscenity. We do not believe they need the help of censors to assist them in this task. We believe they still favor free enterprise in ideas and expression...
...minor dynasts have vanished in the wars, revolutions and other dislocations of the 20th century. Britain's empire, too, is diminished, yet neither hot war nor cold war, nuclear nor social fission has tarnished the bright gold of the British crown. In an age that tends to reject ritual, scoff at virtue and call magic coincidence the crown that was set this week on the head of Elizabeth II was more generally accepted because better understood, better loved because more respected, than it had ever been before...
...situation, Li concedes, is now "very difficult." Why then does he reject the U.N. proposal that his men should be evacuated to Formosa, where they may live to fight the Communists another day? For one thing, he says, his men are determined to stay where they are. What's more, says the general, the U.N. and the U.S. have been duped by Communist charges that the National Salvation Army is a collection of bandits. Such "vilification," he says, actually included the charges that he personally had been riding around Bangkok in a fancy limousine, that he supports no fewer...