Word: disdain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Doormen, however, look on the riders with disdain; and sometimes, owning a bicycle in Manhattan is as frustrating as owning a car. A short time ago, Theater Owner Daniel Talbot came downtown from his apartment for lunch at the Algonquin Hotel. The hotel refused to let him park his bike in the lobby, a policeman told him to get it off the sidewalk, a garage attendant would not let him park in his lot even if he paid regular prices. He moved...
...twinkling devilishly at everybody as he enjoins them didactically to "Read Pepys' diary," "Read Marcus Aurelius," "Read Walt Whitman." So, too, the ever-capable Paul Barstow, now the Aristocrat, an ex-governor and F.O. man: he gestures with the monocle, is dismayed and contented both with proper peerish disdain...
Having bluntly set straight some major points of French policy, De Gaulle set off on a five-day tour of eastern France to call for national unity and rally support. Both were obviously needed. Back in Paris, Deputies of the National Assembly were openly irritated at his disdain for their views, needled him with a petty but rare legislative defeat. Taunting the government ministers with the obvious fact that all important decisions are made by De Gaulle and no one else, former Premier Georges Bidault snapped: "We are the appearance of a Parliament which debates with the appearance...
Whatever their political sympathies, valley Lao wonder if the Meos, now that they have taken up modern arms, will ever put them down. Said one official: "We feel pity for them, disdain, but also respect. They have too much ability in a simple way, and too much money from their opium. They've chosen to live on the very tops of the mountains, among the clouds...
...like capitalism. We have as much right to protest over the existence of a capitalist-imperialist regime 90 miles off our coast as he feels he has to protest over the existence of a socialist regime 90 miles off his coast." How about democracy? Castro made his disdain blunter than he had before, even though, from the earliest days in the Sierra Maestra 28 months ago, he had made it clear that revolutionary movements, coming to power in turmoil, need not-and dare not -call immediate elections. "Do we need elections?" Castro demanded of the crowd below him. Obediently...