Word: rebuff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Smarting under this rebuff, Adenauer proclaimed his intention to run for the presidency himself, and all Germany applauded his solution. Adenauer thought that the ceremonial job might be converted into a post as prestigious as that occupied in France by his friend Charles de Gaulle, but after prolonged study of the West German constitution his lawyers said no. All the while, inside the Christian Democratic Party, a bitter fight was developing over who should succeed Adenauer as chancellor. The old man himself favored Finance Minister Franz Etzel, a quiet corporation lawyer who could be counted upon to accept tutelage...
...around to the cold war last week-and declared himself a neutral. "Why choose sides?" he asked a rally of 100,000 Havana workers. "Why say that all America must join one of the bands? Why not proclaim our right to live?" Castro's neutralism was a forthright rebuff to the U.S., but in expressing it he also slapped down one of his oldest supporters, ex-President José ("Pepe") Figueres of Costa Rica, who sat near by as a guest of honor...
...rebuff has ever stopped Christofilos. He wrote a second letter in 1950, outlining what is now called the "strong focusing" principle for building big accelerators. The reply from California advised him to read a certain mathematical book and clear up some errors. Christofilos did so, polished his theory and brought it to New York in 1953. He went straight to the Public Library, where he found that the strong focusing principle had already been developed independently by Brookhaven National Laboratory. "So you see," he says irrepressibly, "on the first day I came back to my country I found that...
...divisions to fight in Algeria without a by-your-leave, and on other occasions-including the U.S. transfer of the Sixth Fleet during the Quemoy crisis-NATO had not been too scrupulously notified. What mattered this time was that De Gaulle was not pleading a necessity, but intending a rebuff. His ministers were almost apologetic in having to deliver it to allies. (Even ultranationalist Premier Michel Debré privately argued against De Gaulle's action.) De Gaulle was plainly 1) miffed at U.S. abstention during the last U.N. vote on the Algerian revolt, 2) determined to be admitted, along...
...apple of Papa Samuel Eaton's eye, and poor Alfred is the apple core. When the brother dies at 14, Alfred is cut off without a pennyworth of love by the steelmaster millionaire father. With old-fashioned pre-Freudian directness. Author O'Hara allows this rebuff to clue the pattern of Alfred Eaton's life. From then on, he is destined to confer his love rather than give it, to make contact with people rather than make friends. His outwardly charming, cold-fish personality seems to carry a jinx. Before he is 20, he is partially responsible...