Word: snubbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When snub-nosed Wayne Long walked out of the old brick state penitentiary at Salem, Ore. one day last week, FBI agents had the word and they were on hand to tail him. Twenty-five-year-old Long was a toughie all right; he had three stretches for stealing and assault on his record, had crashed out of prison twice. But it wasn't Long the G-men were interested in. They hoped he would lead them to his old pal, John Omar Pinson, a cop killer who had escaped from Salem a year before and worked himself onto...
...recording was flown back east for the dinner, but the assembled Gridironers and their 500 guests never heard it. Last week Hearstling George Dixon, professional Washington funnyman and not a member of the Gridiron Club, told what had happened. The club had decided to snub Harry Truman in May as the President had snubbed the club in December. The record was not played. Chided Columnist Dixon: "A spirit of pique and wounded self-importance...
Cambridge's workmen didn't snub the rumors or try to stifle them. Forthrightly and honestly, they blasted open their kiosk island and laid it before the public gaze. Thundering pneumatic drills proved the strength of their concrete. Sledge hammers exposed cross-section after cross-section, showing it pure and well-mixed to the last pebble. Today, disinterested students can stand before a saw-horse guard rail and examine the dismembered rubble: mute testimony to the honesty and conviction of a few simple workmen...
...Harvard Snub...
Last January, to protect their trade in the Far East, the British offered to recognize the new Communist regime. They expected an eager response. They got a rude snub. China's Red masters first kept the British dangling, then, last March 3, handed British Chárge d'Affaires John C. Hutchison three extraordinary questions, implying that they would not accept British recognition unless the answers were favorable. Asked Peking...