Word: snubbed
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...protest, the women organized deliberate snubs. During the recent election campaign, the women sent delegations to greet Soekarno. But when Hartini stepped down from the plane, the delegation would turn and march off. They waited on officials, demanding that they snub her. To one irate delegation, Premier Harahap explained that on one occasion he had intended only to shake hands with the President. But Hartini determinedly went up to him with outstretched hand. "What could I do but accept her hand!" bleated Harahap...
...snub intended. The architects and churches: San Francisco's Corpus Christi Roman Catholic Church, Mario J. Ciampi; Clifton, N.J.'s St. Philip the Apostle, Arthur Rigolo; Columbus, Ohio's St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, Brooks and Coddington; Edmond, Okla.'s Hopewell Baptist Church, Bruce Goff; St. Louis' Church of the Resurrection of Our Lord, Murphy and Mackey; Springfield, Mass.'s Congregation Beth El, Percival Goodman; Tucson's Faith Lutheran Church, Arthur T. Brown; Pacific Palisades, Calif.'s St. Matthew's Episcopal Church, A. Quincy Jones and Frederick E. Emmons; Midland...
CHANCE VOUGHT AIRCRAFT, which cut loose from United Aircraft last year, has added another fighter to the U.S. arsenal of supersonic jets, its first as an independent company. The plane, now being tested for the Navy, is the XF8U-1, a snub-nosed, swept-wing single-engined fighter designed to operate off carrier decks, hit a top speed of around 900 m.p.h...
...Bobtailed Cruiser." At the commissioning in Bremerton Navy Yard, the Navy appropriately christened its prototype ship the U.S.S. Carronade, after a snub-nosed naval cannon developed in Scotland in 1779. The Carronade looks sawed in half-it has an awesome, cruiser-like bow with eight rocket launchers planted on a forward deck which slants downward to the steel-skinned superstructure, then ends abruptly. It looks, in the words of the Carronade's crewmen, like "a bobtailed cruiser...
...last week, for example, the single-panel cartoon showed a snub-nosed child stopping by his teacher's desk as he put on his coat to go home. Asked he: "Did I learn anything in school today, Miss Watts? Mom always asks." Or it may be a young secretary standing up to her pompous, jowly boss: "I hate reminding you about that raise, Mr. Doaks, but my husband keeps nagging me about it." Some fans believe Clark is at his best on the domestic scene, e.g., an adolescent daughter, about to leave on a date with her boy friend...