Word: snubbed
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...strewn with difficulty. An inordinate shyness, accentuated by his deafness, was mistaken for gruffness, an engineer's anxiety to be letter-perfect, for indecision. Twice while Dulles was absent, Hoover as Acting Secretary had to take responsibility for poor staff work that produced diplomatic boomerangs: 1) the U.S. snub in April 1955 of Communist China's offer to negotiate disagreements that were leading the two nations toward war; 2) the on-again, off-again shipment of 18 U.S. tanks to Saudi Arabia last winter in the midst of Israel's strongest plea for U.S. arms...
...proud, "Tacho" Somoza went that night to mingle with the shirtsleeved crowd in the local Somoza-founded Workers' Club. It was just after 11 o'clock on Sept. 21-Somoza has always thought that 21 was his lucky number-when one of the celebrators pulled a snub-nosed Smith and Wesson .38 revolver and opened fire on the strongman...
...Author Moravia, the ending of Bitter Honeymoon is an uncommonly tender solution. More typical is Back to the Sea. Here Lorenzo, the husband, is the tortured chap whose marriage is one continual snub from his wife. She doesn't love him and never did. She has taken on a whole string of lovers. Lorenzo knows all this but knowing it only helps to heighten his infatuation. On a picnic by the sea, he tries to win her affection, then tries to take her by force, but he realizes that having her that way would really be a defeat. When...
...breakfast next morning cops intercepted a letter for B. & K. It contained one snub-nosed bullet and a warning that "each of you will get one of these inside you." On the way to the Lord Mayor of London's luncheon, there were boos along the route. Said Khrushchev: "I'm not displeased. It shows some people have spirit...
...about it. Blessed by Islamic law and local custom, the nation's second First Lady, a divorcee of 32, was duly ensconced in the presidential palace at Bogor. Cleaving loyally to the first First Lady, 31-year-old Fatmawati, all that the indignant clubwomen could do was to snub the interloper (TIME, Oct. 24) and refer to her with a sneer as "that woman in Bogor...