Word: rejects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...demand for involuntary repatriation. This time the prospective victims were among the U.N.'s 130,000-odd prisoners of war (of whom about 20,000 are Chinese, the rest North Koreans). At the conference table in Panmunjom, the U.N. insisted that each man be free to accept or reject repatriation, the voting to be supervised by the Red Cross. The Red negotiators insisted that all Communist prisoners be returned to their masters, whether they wanted to go or not. The U.N. Command said that thousands of Red prisoners beg not to be sent back...
...creature. As a creature, he is subject to his Creator in all that he does. God's will has ... a bearing on everything that touches human rights and duties. No state, no group of educators may reject a truth of the moral order to suit the claim of convenience...
...home . . . There is a growing anxiety in the American home as disclosures reveal graft and corruption over a broad front in our public service. Those charged with its stewardship seem either apathetic, indifferent, or in seeming condonation . . . Despite failures in leadership, [the people] have it in their power ... to reject the socialist policies covertly and by devious means being forced upon us, to stamp out Communist influence which has played so ill-famed a part in the past misdirection of our public administration . . . Our country will then reassume that spiritual and moral leadership recently lost in a quagmire of political...
...Britain. Solemnly, Farouk handed the ribbon-tied speech to aging Premier Nahas, who quavered through it for 40 minutes. Beyond acknowledging that abrogation was an "accomplished fact" and that Egypt would proceed accordingly, "without hesitation or delay," the government made no concessions to the fanatic nationalists. It did not reject the West's Middle East Command proposal. As Nahas read, the King sat composedly, fondling a pair of grey gloves. When it was over, he coughed, tapped his foot until Nahas hastily handed back the document. For the moment at least, Farouk was truly King...
...results were surprising. Of 25 patients, aged 10 to 66, the investigators found that almost every one had been left motherless, or had been rejected or neglected by her mother. Every one had become unhealthily dependent on her father, husband or lover. Some overcompensated for their dependence by trying to reject men, but in every case an ulcer developed when the patient was rejected by the man she deemed essential to her happiness. The most striking difference between these patients and a similar group of men, the psychiatrists found, was that most of the men managed at least a superficial...