Word: rejection
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...inquest I truthfully answered all questions asked of me," Kennedy said yesterday, upon learning of the judge's charge. "In my personal view, the influence and ultimate finding of the judge's report are not justified and I reject them...
...renown outside Germany as his country's most committed writer. "Much of what is the active conscience in the Germany of Krupp and the Munich beer halls," Critic George Steiner once put it, "lies in this man's ribald keeping." Characteristically impatient with grandiose claims of any sort, Grass rejects this sort of praise out of hand. For other reasons, a great many of his fellow countrymen reject the judgment too, particularly former Nazis, the middle class and petty shopkeepers of the older generation from whom Grass himself sprang. Such folk like to refer to him as "Pornograss," or contemptuously...
...active in mobilizing opposition to the Florida judge, said that the issues of legal mediocrity and racial insensitivity caused Carswell's defeat. Since the Senate is normally reluctant to reject two Supreme Court nominations in a row, Bok said, "both of these reasons were necessary to defeat Carswell...
...said that although only 440 Cliffies will be allowed to move to Harvard, 480 have been given the opportunity to apply to enable Houses to interview and possibly reject Cliffie aplicants...
...present Administration, and only 17% think they will ever come to depend on the Federal Government again. They are equally unlikely to seek help from either of the two major political parties. Though 63% believe Democrats are more likely than Republicans to help blacks, an even higher 72% entirely reject the notion of reflex party support, preferring to vote for "whichever man will help the blacks." In fact, black self-reliance and self-confidence have progressed to the point where a surprising 41%-to-38% plurality can foresee themselves taking real control of their local governments in the next...