Word: snubs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lange's snub of the U.S. came after he received a letter from Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke, in which Hawke implied that New Zealand's antinuclear stand could harm the alliance. Responded Lange: "The policy is not anti-American. It is not antialliance. It is antinuclear." Washington's concern is that New Zealand's position might send a divisive message to other U.S. allies...
...Listen, stop tanning yourself/ and talking about fishbelly white...Stop unfolding/ your eyes./ Your eyes are beautiful.../ Stop trimming your nose./ When you/ diminish/ your nose/ your songs/ become little/ tinny, muted/ and snub./ Stop bleaching/ your skin/ and talking/ about/ so much black/ is not beautiful...
When the lanky prisoner aboard a New Year's Eve flight from St. Croix to New York City complained of feeling sick, one of his three guards escorted him to the lavatory. The prisoner emerged brandishing a snub-nosed handgun. He disarmed his guards--two of whom had black belts in karate--and ordered the pilot to fly the American Airlines DC-10 to Cuba. Thus Ishmail Muslim Ali, 37, formerly known as Ishmael La Beet, once again made headlines as the Virgin Islands' most notorious criminal...
MOST GRIEVOUS OVERSIGHT: The Tony Award snub to Death of a Salesman, which got but one nomination--some say to punish Star Dustin Hoffman for feuding with producers...
...transatlantic flight, in fact, not because of Vinnie's natural charm but despite her best efforts, so typical of the tenured academic set, to put him off. She would deny him even a glance at her newspaper, were she not unfamiliar with the proper form of that particular snub. And the more physical manifestations of love-well. Vinnie still finds it pleasant but bittersweet, the principal male organ still seems "infected: sore, red, puffy...