Word: snubbing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Belgium's constitution is hard on the King's ministers. It specifically states that the ministers shall be held wholly responsible for the King's actions, good or bad. Two weeks ago, 21-year-old King Baudouin announced that he would snub the funeral of Britain's King George VI, and would send his younger brother, Prince Albert, to London in his stead. Why? Well, Baudouin is his father's son, and his memory still smarts at the British attitude towards his father Leopold over Belgium's surrender to Germany...
From the moment Alexander parked his Ford (a car he soon traded for a flashy Chrysler), the school became a teacher's nightmare. He packed a snub-nosed .38 pistol tucked in his waistband. He had a switch knife with which he picked his teeth. He flashed a roll of bills and spouted the fastest brand of jive talk his astounded classmates had ever heard...
More & more modern painters and critics agree with Hofmann, revere him as the dean of a fast-growing school of U.S. abstractionists. Such leading lights of the school as Jackson Pollock and Robert Motherwell snub nature, keep their eyes on the canvas and paint nothings like fury...
...expected cry of pain arose from the Ivy Circuit this week when several Ivy colleges got a curt snub from the Big Three. The athletic mouthpieces of these venerable institutions had their feelings hurt in no small way by Messrs. Conant, Griswold, and Dodds, who issued their athletic purity statement last Sunday as a Triparte Pact. The pained outcries come from two football camps...
About 100 West Pointers were present, most of them from the debating team and the 90-man Glee Club. The Harvard Band, in order to return the snub, greeted the absence of the Army Band with a huge question mark. The Band also executed a parody on the practice of unlimited substitution in football...