Word: spurn
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...Sulking. What admirers call his "orderly intellect" persuaded Manning to spurn Wall Street for faster progress with a big Cleveland law firm. In six years, he became not only a formidable young corporation lawyer, but also a part-time political scientist at Western Reserve University and a leading spirit of the Cleveland Metropolitan Service Commission. When Yale made him a law professor at 33, the Cleveland Plain Dealer lamented the departure of "a young man with an admirable civic conscience...
Then there were the less tangible causes of discontent. Russia's prestige has been suffering abroad. The revolutionaries are turning to the Chinese, the mixed-economy nations are on the whole sticking with the West, and the neutralists spurn the Russians as well as the Americans. Caught between the advances of a more revolutionary Communism and the responsibilities of nuclear power leadership, Premier Khrushchev was almost inevitably damned for what he did do, and damned for what he didn...
Most of those who do not belong to AAAAS reportedly stay out for the same reason, and not because they disapprove. (Just as many spurn civil rights groups because they are "disillusioned," and not because they are satisfied with the rate of social change...
Most of those who do not belong to AAAAS reportedly stay out for the same reason, and not because they disapprove. (Just as many spurn civil rights groups because they are "disillusioned," and not because they are satisfied with the rate of social change...
...Trib was joined by the Los Angeles Times. Having urged its readers to spurn Goldwater in the California primary, the Times then bowed to the primary's unpalatable result: "The Times congratulates Goldwater, both for his victory and for the determination to rebuild a unified party. There is no place, now, for anger or abuse...