Word: disdain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communist explanation runs as follows: "According to the Geneva international agreement, P.W.s must be treated humanely, they must not be deprived of their personal belongings and must be provided with proper clothing and footgear. The imperialist troops, murderers of thousands of the peaceful Korean people, scornfully disdain the most elementary rules of humanity as well as international agreements. This picture shows an American soldier driving along previously stripped Korean P.W.s...
Sitting across the courtroom from Harry Gold, Brothman heard the story last week in tight-lipped silence; Miss Moskowitz with grinning disdain. Their chance to answer it was yet to come...
...experience he always "sat" before University Hall, staring with weathered disdain through the ranks of callow youths dragging themselves into the deans' offices...
...lovers' idyl was in reality saddened by Elizabeth's repeated miscarriages and poor health, by Browning's continual worry over his lack of recognition, by the freezing disdain of "Sweet Puppy," who never forgave Elizabeth for marrying...
...Popular Front. Young Lawyer Blum helped defend Captain Alfred Dreyfus. He became a protege and confidant of the great French Socialist leader Jean Leon Jaures. But Blum's approach was steadfastly intellectual: he seemed to disdain practical politics. The assassination of Jaures and the shock of World War I changed the current of his life. In 1919, at 47, the dilettante was elected a deputy...