Word: spurn
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...obstacle looms. The Indians and Pakistanis may spurn ghee produced by American Holsteins and insist on good old water-buffalo ghee. But this need not daunt the Department of Agriculture. It can import water buffalo, fill the Wisconsin and Minnesota lake regions with them, get the 4-H Clubs leaping with water-buffalo milk-yield contests, buy the surplus milk, and turn out ghee just like Mother India used to make...
...handsome, erect woman ("My grandmother always told me: 'Stand tall and spurn the earth' ") with a weather-tanned face, Mrs. Bowring flew back to the ranch after the announcement "to kiss the cattle goodbye." Said she, with a characteristic twinkle: "They're about the only ones interested in kissing me any more." For her introduction to Washington, she adopted a rancher's formula: "I'm going to ... ride the fence awhile . . . until I find where the gates...
...other extreme are the more intellectually inclined House members who attend the forums and concerts which the athlets avoid, and who, in turn, take little interest in Straus Trophy competition, and often spurn the spirited cheering of football weekends...
...Spurn Arbitration...
...keep up the pretense. They wrote as if the Big Three conference in Washington was really called just to force the British imperialists to lift their oil blockade; it was learned from "travelers approached unofficially in Europe" that the U.S. would soon have new proposals for the nation to spurn. Premier Mossadegh, alas, knew better, and as a result was laid up for a "threeday rest." He had got Eisenhower's firm rejection of his plea for "effective economic assistance" (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Cried one of his aides: "If Churchill himself had written it, he would not have used...