Word: spurn
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...allow Israeli vessels to use the waterway once it is cleared, dredged and reopened. But it is at least a new proposal. Even though a partial retreat from the canal would pose serious tactical problems for security-minded Israelis, they risk a new round of world censure if they spurn the idea out of hand...
...young Maoists are mostly former farm workers from the south, embittered by city life, frustrated by assembly-line routine, and easy prey for student provocateurs, whose rallying cry is "Worker power!" Standing far to the left of Italy's established Communist Party, the mavericks spurn alliances with traditional unions, and have as their avowed aim the toppling of capitalism. While they ardently admire the Peking government, their name comes not from an official link with Red China but from their rough tactics and revolutionary chants, which resemble those once used by Chairman Mao's Red Guards. The Maoist...
Blacks desire the good things in life, which so many other Americans have already gained; these things are now taken for granted by the white middle class and have even become somewhat boring. In this sense, black militants are very different from young white radicals. They do not spurn material progress but want a greater share of it-along with freedom and equality. They are indeed faithful dreamers of the American dream- but scandalously hampered in turning that dream into reality for themselves...
...sartorial tone and tough radicalism dominated the rhetoric last week when 350 delegates to the First National Black Economic Conference met in Detroit. First they ejected white news men. Then they rejected capitalism for a socialist state for Negroes. Within this brave new world, young Negroes would spurn such "dead end" and "status quo" jobs as driving trucks, delivering mail or repairing television sets...
...military career people must feel pretty frustrated to find themselves blamed for failures that are manifestly the result of political constraints. The ironic part is that if we neglect our defenses and spurn our defenders, another Pearl Harbor may occur. Then public feeling will well up, and courting of our soldiers will once again be in style. As Rudyard Kipling wrote of the peacetime military man nearly 80 years...