Word: snubs
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...broke into Persian: "Believe me, it is in your interest for me not to come back." I suddenly remembered the snub-nosed Smith & Wesson that I had strapped on my back and a grenade I carried in my coat pocket. I was determined not to be captured alive. The immigration official would be my first target. I looked squarely at him and said: "I like this side better. I am sick and tired of what is happening in Iran, and of so-called officials who believe they have supreme power...
...Brokaw, NBC's Mr. Clean, an experienced journalist with the snub nose and boyish good looks of the class president, the boy most likely to succeed...
Giscard's snub was more than offset by the warm reception Anderson received from the British. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Anderson got along so well that she invited him to use the doorstep at 10 Downing Street for an impromptu press conference...
They drive the reporter back to the scene of the crime, a wood-siding townhouse in a complex dotted with speedbumps. Turned out sniper wasn't quiet the word. A young man, upset that his girl was seeing another man, roared up to the door in his snub-nosed car, pulled out a rifle, and threatened to blow away not only the new boyfriend but the old girlfriend as well...
Seemingly unprepared for the wave of criticism, White House officials insisted that Carter's absence was neither intended as a snub nor taken as such by Belgrade. Ambassador Eagleburger told reporters in Belgrade: "You are wrong if you presume that the embassy knows that there is great unhappiness with the [attendance of the] Vice President instead of the President." If the embassy did not know it, the White House apparently learned enough to consider adding a Belgrade stopover to Carter's scheduled trip to Italy next month...