Word: dismissed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Still, there is no precedent in Czechoslovakia for Palach's attempt to provoke unrest by the deliberate, fiery kind of self-destruction that Buddhists used in South Viet Nam, and the first appalled reaction was to dismiss his act as the product of a deranged mind...
Charge on Wheels. Samperi's protagonist is a lunatic adolescent named Alvise (Lou Castel), who spends most of his time scooting about in a motorized wheelchair. Alvise, the doctors tell his father, shows no positive physical symptoms. Still, his parents airily dismiss the suggestion that the paralysis could be psychosomatic and leave on a business trip, entrusting Alvise to the care of his Aunt Lea (Lisa Gastoni). Zia Lea, a lithe beauty with raven hair and a creamy complexion, is vaguely dissatisfied with her lover of 15 years (Gabriele Ferzetti) and begins to take a more than consanguine interest...
Refusing to dismiss Bailey's act as a symbolic nose-thumbing by a disgruntled right-winger, two Democrats last week challenged the wayward Republican's vote. Maine's Senator Edmund Muskie, the defeated vice-presidential nominee, and Michigan Representative James O'Hara invoked an 1887 statute under which a majority of both houses may reject any vote by an elector that has not been "regularly given." The motion was soundly defeated, but the two Democrats believe that they have made a point. Said Muskie: "I hope that the consequences of Congress' action are understood...
...Valachi Papers does not always rise above its detail. But for those who still dismiss the Cosa Nostra as the fanciful creation of ambitious D.A.s and over-imaginative hoodlums, the detail serves a purpose. Out of all the dates and curiously businesslike statistics, there finally emerges the dark outline of a state within a state-"a second government," as Valachi calls it. In the words of a member of the Justice Department: "He showed us the face of the enemy...
...full dictatorial powers in "defense of the necessary interests of the nation." The act, the fifth of its kind in the last four years, gave Costa e Silva the right to close Congress, rule by decree, cancel the political rights of any person, declare a state of siege, dismiss public officials, waive writs of habeas corpus, and permit the seizure of assets of those who illegally enriched themselves...