Word: snubbing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ababa and Asmara were shut down and the Red Sea ports were closed. Food and fuel shortages spread as truck drivers stopped working. So determined were the striking workers to win government acceptance of their demands that the negotiating committee refused to meet with the Emperor himself, an unprecedented snub...
Bollinger thereafter served notice that he was in charge in Brooklyn, and for a year he and his gang of badged deputies ran the village, freely roaming the streets armed with pistols, sawed-off shotguns, rifles, even machine guns. Bollinger himself toted a snub-nosed .30-cal. semiautomatic carbine "enforcer," which he kept tucked in the waist of his Levi's. The police department was so cowed by Bollinger and his bully buddies that, in effect, it ceased to exist...
...Tanaka government was not only embarrassed by the cancellation but fearful that it might be interpreted in Washington as an anti-U.S. snub. Though the episode did cloud Nixon's hopes of paying a visit to Japan in 1974, the Administration saw the unfortunate affair as merely the latest indication of the Tanaka government's slipping ability to govern...
...Masterships is a first step in that direction. But Bok has failed to adhere to the spirit of reform in recent Master appointments. In making some of these selections he has apparently ignored lengthy lists of desirable candidates drawn up by students. This behavior was either an uncalled-for snub or a serious failure of communication...
...report that her husband had not seen Nixon "a god-blessed lie." Said Mrs. Mitchell in a telephone call to the Associated Press: "The President wanted Mr. Mitchell down there. They're trying to get him and me as the two culprits." If Mitchell did not see Nixon, the snub seemed a demeaning way for the President to deal with an intimate on such a grave matter as implication in the scandal...