Word: disdain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Propagate a Disdain...
Therefore, Meselson maintained, the United Staets, which spends about $200 million yearly on such weapons development, should do what it can to propagate a disdain" for biological and chemical warfare research...
...Back Bay Theatre and figured out that the Righteous Brothers have about as much soul as Laurence Welk. And this is something not to be realized lightly by one who had devoutly kept "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling" on her all-time-great list despite the disdain of more sophisticated patrons...
...acting, too, is generally skillful, but occasionally overdone. Edward Zang's cynical Scandal is always restrained yet his open disdain for the slithery lawyer Buckram (Bernard Wurger) is still as funny as anything in the show. Wurger himself smoothly handles a three minute conversation from a blackhatted Puritan lawyer to a shyly drunk self-acknowledged stud. Gerald McGonagill as the addled astrologer Foresight, when calm, is also entertaining...
...essentials of form and color. Then there is Allen Drury, who happens to be a bestselling novelist without much talent for writing. But Drury has a special gift-a reportorial eye and ear for detail and atmosphere, an expertise about political power, and a seasoned newsman's disdain for cant...