Word: disdain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sunny, sybaritic Indonesian resort town of Bandung, some 29 African and Asian nationalists gathered ten years ago to declare their heartfelt disdain of European colonialism and to get to know one another. In the decade since then, the Afro-Asian world has expanded from 29 to 65 nations, each with its own, pressing internal problems. The grand dream of 1955 has fragmented into even more intense subdreams-expressed by smaller groupings such as the Arab League, the Organization of African Unity, the Organisation Commune Africaine et Mal-gache. Even within these groups, glittering chimeras give way to the hard practicality...
...them what will you, claim that that the sight of scantily clad young women leaping into the air, legs well apart waving sticks with colored paper on their ends would have a beneficent effect on the team's performance. We view this position with more than a jot of disdain and more than a title of alarm...
...raise money for ailing Lauri's medical bills. A charitable New York poolroom lent a table, cut off the recorded music out of respect for the occasion, and crowded in 1,000 of the faithful. As Lauri, 69, made his runs, Mosconi wore a crushing expression of disdain. It upset Lauri's concentration so much that he committed an inexcusable scratch-missing the object ball entirely. "You play with this guy," groaned Lauri, "and you get punch-drunk...
Even before he arrived, in fact, De Gaulle contrived to show his disdain for Erhard's hopes for a united Europe and slap the German's warm support for the U.S. in Viet Nam. "We do not want a supranational Europe," sniffed De Gaulle at the annual Elysée garden party for parliamentarians. "For us, that would be to want to disappear." When someone suggested that the U.S. had been formed by a kind of supranational fusion, De Gaulle delivered one of his little historical lectures. "America was virgin territory," he said. "All that was there...
...trembled, but they did not fall. The HCUA, in its own death throes, rushed to preserve Propriety. Amidst a pleasant furor, Miss Levine's candidacy was ruled invalid. But the candidate on the basis of some little-publicized election rules further sullied the election. The proceedings amply reflected the disdain, in which most of the class held the proceedings...