Word: disdain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then there were the customers and friends of the designer, the chic nameless women whose patronage often still accounts for as much as half a couturier's profit, who stepped out of chauffeur-driven limousines with cool, perfumed disdain, pulling sables close about them. For thern^ invitations were not generally required; they had their checkbooks in hand. The press representing the smaller papers kept to the backs of rooms, appeared pink-cheeked and pleasant, proved deadly when cornered ("Out of my way!" shrieked one Midwest reporter caught in an entrance crush, delivering side jabs and bloody noses with...
...name has a ringing militancy, a brave air of rectitude, and a precisionist disdain for brevity: Protestants and Other Americans United for Separation of Church and State, more familiarly known as POAU. Last week in Denver, at its 15th annual POAU-wow on church and state, the 2000,000-member organization concluded once again that Roman Catholic clericalism wants to smash big holes in the wall between religion and government in the U.S. But it also heard one good Baptist suggest that Pope John XXIII may have made POAU's traditional pugnacity a little obsolete...
Over the past 20 years, on his own people and on their neighbors, Charles de Gaulle has perfected his native talent for handing out rude surprises. Employing the lofty disdain that used to infuriate Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin, De Gaulle succeeded in infuriating Kennedy, Macmillan and a host of others by vetoing Britain's admission to the Common Market...
...before Aug. 13." Everyone applauded enthusiastically-everyone, that is, except the little man in a grey-blue uniform who sat impassively among the delegates to the left of the rostrum. He was Wu Hsiu-chuan, Red China's delegate sent by Peking to register quiet disdain at Khrushchev's conduct in the latest chapter in the Sino-Soviet split...
...convenient 1,000 miles from home." The dominance of outsiders is one of Reed's chief problems with Portland. Harvard-trained President Richard H. Sullivan on the one hand exults in his students' hot loyalty to "the Reed community," and on the other laments their disdain for Portland. "We're snobs," says one girl...