Word: snubs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...done. As Amherst withdrew from Peking, the snub was subtly underscored. In the streets he passed a beggar, who rose up deferentially. Amherst's mandarin escort instantly commanded the beggar to sit down again-"the British ambassador," dolefully observed his secretary, "not being now considered deserving respect even from the lowest class of society...
...might & majesty of imperial Britain exacted amends for the great Chinese snub of 1816 (see above). The Opium War was fought, Hong Kong gained, extraterritorial concessions yanked from the declining Celestial Empire. But by last week history seemed to have completed a cycle. A new dynasty ruled in Peking. A new demand for kowtow lay before His Britannic Majesty's government...
Chanting "we want freshmen," almost 200 Leverett House men stormed the Union last night and staged a five-minute rally in the packed dining hall to protest a predicted snub of their House by the Class...
When Humphrey got up to speak, the Senate elders, one by one, led by Harry Byrd himself, quit the floor. -Angered by the pointed snub, Humphrey shouted defiantly: "The shrinking violet has not been clipped." He still thought that the Byrd committee was "a sort of political zombie," that it claimed credit for economies that the Administration had accomplished on its own hook. Cried Humphrey: "I would not say that was patting oneself on the back. I would say that is just twisting oneself up like a pretzel and spinning and announcing to the world the greatness...