Word: snubbed
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...Iraqi Prime Minister, a Shi'ite, doesn't trust Jordan's Sunni monarch and did not want to discuss sensitive issues with Bush in Abdullah's presence. Home to hundreds of thousands of Iraqi immigrants, including many of al-Maliki's political enemies, Jordan is unlikely to forget this snub in a hurry...
...loner, but his world is filled with friends. He knows the cop with the abused arches, the complaisant heiress, the slick saloon proprietor, the sick comic, the sullen stoolie who talks in the guarded whisper of cell block and exercise yard ... HE IS HARD-MUSCLED, HANDSOME, HANDY WITH A SNUB-NOSE .38, AND HIS HIDE IS AS TOUGH AS THE BLUING ON A PISTOL BARREL. Decent, disillusioned and altogether incredible, he is a soap opera Superman. He is television's 'Private Eye.' Smarter than the cops, craftier than the crooks, too quick to be caught and domesticated by the classiest...
...left out Julia Roberts, making her Broadway debut in Three Days of Rain, but the poor girl has had enough grief from the critics - not to mention a Tony snub. She's too stiff, and her Southern accent isn't even very good, but the real shame is how tinny Richard Greenberg's once-intriguing play now seems...
Still, many supposed feminists like Dowd would snub the choice my mother made. They view women who prioritize childrearing as either backwards pre-feminists or victims of a coercive patriarchal society that robs women of the opportunity to work. If they were not victims, why would Harvard-educated women cease working to be mothers? What even-headed woman would pick diapers over corporate chic heels and whirlwind business trips...
...Orthodox atmosphere. However, at Princeton in 2003, tempers flared when the university’s Center for Jewish life decided to deny a new Chabad chapter official recognition. The group’s “confrontational” recruitment tactics were cited as the main reason for the snub. But what Rabbi Zarchi describes as Harvard Chabad’s spirit of “inreach”—“Outreach,” he says, “can imply that you’re in and someone else is out?...