Word: contemptable
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Shunted aside by the military takeover, the Communist Party has not recovered. Army officers hardly conceal their contempt for the party, which they consider a source of corruption and mismanagement. At the provincial level, many generals have taken over top party posts, and every factory, service agency or government office has its military commissar...
...this. Earlier, as we had made a rendezvous under a highway bridge, local people had slowed their pickups and then accelerated smartly. I have been eyeballed by my fellow New Hampshiremen while dressed for jogging and tennis, but today's stares had conveyed more than a little sociable contempt. To earn the revulsion of decent citizens was satisfying, certainly, and well worth the trouble of smearing one's face with forest-tone greasepaint. But now that fun was over, and it was time to go into the woods and shoot one another...
...there seems to have been no "appreciable" increase in pot smoking. In addition, those states have lower costs of enforcement. California, for example, now spends only a quarter of what it used to and concentrates on the pursuit of dealers and large-scale distributors. The committee also cited the contempt that many young people have for the law because it imposes such different sanctions on the use of alcohol and pot. Says the report: "Alienation from the rule of law in democratic society may be the most serious cost of current marijuana laws...
...took much notice that Schlafly's insistence upon strength through inequality could have been based on a fear and contempt for men at least as deep as, say, Radical Feminist Ti-Grace Atkinson's. What emerged instead was the image of Phyllis Schlafly as defender of the traditional values, defender of the home. No matter that all the sociologists and all the statisticians and all the activists said Ozzie and Harriet were gone for good, that the conventional nuclear family, with Dad bringing home the bacon and Mom cooking it for him and the kids, survived in only...
...Great Helmsman Mao is the architect of catastrophe in both books. His hatred of a bureaucratic elite inspired callow Red Guards to disrupt all order in China, while his contempt for intellectuals lobotomized the finest minds of the nation. The irony of the Cultural Revolution was that it massacred Yet Mao's greatest error was his encouragement of China's population explosion. In three decades of Communist rule, the population has nearly doubled. This increase of 450 million equals the population of the U.S. and Western Europe. As a result, the actual strides in industry, agriculture and public...