Word: rejected
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Smoking. The opposition to Dewey collapsed in the face of one question: how can you argue with the people? With Dewey so clearly in front in all public soundings,* to reject him for some other candidate might suggest a picture of sinister men in smoke-filled rooms, defying the will of the people. Tom Dewey's shrewd managers could either afford to sit tight, or had been ordered to, or both. And they did. They staged no preconvention banquets or band concerts. Dewey's No. 1 feminine supporter, tall, grey Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms, occupied inconspicuous basement quarters...
...promptly waved off-more men lost to the Army than the total of battle casualties so far. Not until June 1943 did the Army take steps to teach its illiterates the three Rs. Since then approximately 90% of illiterate registrants have been salvaged for the Army, and many a reject has been reclassified. G.I. schools have become commonplace...
...alternative to interim recognition may well be lasting distrust among the western Allies, incalculable bitterness in France itself, the killing of Frenchmen by Frenchmen who will surely act for themselves if they do not have a mid-invasion government strong enough to deal with traitors. Frenchmen will as surely reject any attempt by De Gaulle, by the U.S., by Britain, by anyone to impose upon postwar France what France does not want...
...Massachusetts, where less than 6% of the voters turned out for the primaries, the only excitement was on the Democratic side. Joseph B. Ely, twice Governor of Massachusetts and the sole avowed Democratic Presidential rival of Franklin Roosevelt, campaigned with the slogan: "Don't Copy Hitler . . . Reject Roosevelt." He won six of his state's 68 delegates...
...Helsinki's handsome, granite Diet hall, 200 stubby Finnish forefingers pushed the electric voting buttons. By 160-to-40 the men & women who are supposed to govern Finland approved the Government's decision to reject Russia's armistice terms...