Word: disdain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...best-of-seven play-offs by the same Celtics-who went on to win their ninth N.B.A. championship in ten years. Schayes blamed the debacle on "players who were saying things behind my back"-particularly 7-ft. 1 1/16-in. Center Wilt ("The Stilt") Chamberlain, whose sullen disdain for Schayes flared into open, noisy rebellion. Schayes's inability to handle Chamberlain finally cost him his job, and Hannum, who had coached Wilt for two years when he played for the San Francisco Warriors, came on to see what he could do about taming the temperamental superstar...
...world today is committed to accelerating change: radical, wrenching, erosive of both traditions and old values. Its inheritors have grown up with rapid change, are better prepared to accommodate it than any in history, indeed embrace change as a virtue in itself. With his skeptical yet humanistic outlook, his disdain for fanaticism and his scorn for the spurious, the Man of the Year suggests that he will infuse the future with a new sense of morality, a transcendent and contemporary ethic that could infinitely enrich the "empty society." If he succeeds (and he is prepared...
When Premier Suleyman Demirel, 42, swept to power 14 months ago, his victory was credited largely to Turkey's growing disdain for the eager flirtation with Russia carried on by his chief opponent, foxy former Premier Ismet Inönü, 83. In recent months, however, Demirel has begun some mild flirting of his own. He has received Rumanian Premier Ion Gheorghe Maurer and Bulgarian Foreign Minister Ivan Bashev, sent official delegations to Poland, Russia and Albania. Last week Demirel welcomed his biggest Communist visitor yet: Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin, the first Russian Premier ever to visit Turkey...
...demand for involvement. Often he telephones city agencies without identifying himself and, if the voice on the other end is rude or indifferent, administers a mayoral dressing down. He can be snappish and imperious, exclaiming "I am the mayor!" or "Didn't you come prepared?" His disdain for established procedure puts down bureaucrats and raises hackles, but it gets things done; when he found that it would take months to appropriate a few thousand dollars to install fire-hydrant sprinklers in slum neighborhoods, he personally raised the money among friends. During that potentially explosive summer, Lindsay...
Misery hates company, or so it seems for most of the play. Full of inbred Southern prejudices, the girl calls the man a "nigger" and won't sit at the kitchen table with him. Full of the critical disdain of the educated, the man sarcastically mocks the girl's looks, grammar, vocabulary and dim wits. Gradually, their plight draws them together, and Playwright Westheimer achieves moments of mirth, poignance, compassion, and interracial rapport...