Word: disdain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many Radcliffe students also disdain the family for whom one runs a home. A college woman realizes that an early marriage can demand an unfortunate interruption of her career. Premarital affairs naturally make pregnancy seem a threat; and, after marriage, an unwanted child may cut short a much-wanted career...
...House press secretary who could always be counted on to enliven dull news days in the Kennedy years. Those were the days when Pierre delivered solemn pronouncements on little Caroline's Tom Kitten, or offered brisk communiqués about a trumpet-playing rabbit, or exhibited a grand disdain for the 50-mile hikes so highly recommended by the Kennedys. Considering his background, it is hard for many Californians to remember that Pierre is now a genuine U.S. Senator-one who has served for all of two months since his appointment to fill the seat of the late Clair...
Obviously it is very easy to attack our Vice-President-to-be, from nearly any political direction. Still, I doubt that any of his critics, from Miller to Mailer, will ever strike a really telling blow. Humphrey may disdain the President's art of dodging partisan thrusts, but he does know how to stand still, absorb them, and learn from them, growing sager and more maddeningly lovable all the while...
...Matter of Record." The White House responded with disdain, said the President couldn't be expected to recall the contents of a deed 19 years old and that, anyway, he "is flatly opposed to any such restrictions-and this is a matter of record." Actually, there was no doubt about the authenticity of the document displayed by Miller. But that should not have surprised anyone who has studied Johnson's record and knows that his championship of civil rights is of relatively recent vintage. During his first ten years in Congress, he voted four times against doing away...