Word: slapdown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sharp rebuff to the Russians, who had originally championed Lie, eventually turned against him because he had sped up U.N. action in Korea. It was also a slapdown of the veto used by Russia to block a Security Council vote in favor of Lie (TIME, Oct. 23). The Secretary General discreetly stayed at home, in Forest Hills, N.Y., until the Assembly finished the debate over him. Then he appeared at Flushing Meadow to voice his thanks...