Word: runaround
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...currently suing the union's publication, Spotlight, for $1,000,000, alleging some 350 libelous stories. Month ago, Ward's $1,000,000 libel suit against McGraw-Hill for a Business Week article stating that Ward's had given a federal conciliator the "runaround" was dismissed by Chicago's Federal Judge John P. Barnes...
...Eichelberger insisted that the site was fine for alunite-aluminum production, was not feasible if bauxite-aluminum production (whose carbon furnaces require deep pits) was planned. The fact that Alcoa was to build his plant was news to him. If OPM was not giving him the runaround, it was certainly giving him the silent treatment...
...Charles Palmer's story "Runaround in Reverse" printed last June in MacLean's Magazine the hero admonished his erring wife and her lover thus: " 'I must say I am surprised. Or rather, you are surprised, I am astonished.' He had waited a long time for a chance to use this...
...like Stella Dallas, Backstage Wife, etc. on small stations for night-time broadcasting. One prospect was Elliott Roosevelt's 24-station Texas State Network. But when Elliott and Blackett tried to get permission to take transcriptions of the shows off NBC and CBS wires, they got a royal runaround...
...Calle de Alcalá, along with 500,000 Spaniards, in a final salute to El Caudillo. And Italy could surely not be held responsible for Dictator Franco's delays. Last week the British and French began to suspect that Il Duce and El Caudillo were giving them the runaround, that Italian soldiers might remain in Spain just as long as Dictator Mussolini wants them there and Dictator Franco will have them...