Word: disdain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reason for such disdain is that too many vocational high schools are of the kind described by Director James Goode of Dallas Vocational School: "We handle delinquents, truants, troublemakers, boys with 'low normal' IQs, the ones who have dropped out of regular school programs. We produce the buck privates of industry." Industry does not want them any more than the schools...
...retreated through the jungle, Russian Ilyushin planes flying from North Viet Nam dropped supplies to his troops; his route of march would take him straight to the royal capital of Luang-prabang, where torpid King Savang Vatthana has sat for five months treating the whole civil war with lofty disdain. But General Phoumi made no attempt to pursue, airily declared that his jungle garrisons would take care of Kong Le along the way. General Phoumi's only announced policy is to "transform all Laotians into Laotians" (i.e., non-Communists). To which Prince Boun Oum added this sage advice...
...winds from New York began to blow. Under heavy Afro-Asian pressure, the U.N. had been tacitly supporting Lumumba's contention that he is still Premier of the Congo despite his dismissal three months ago by Kasavubu -and had been treating Kasavubu's commands with a gentlemanly disdain. Now, apparently with an eye on the Assembly vote, the U.N. command shifted its stance slightly, ruled that if served with a formal expulsion order, Welbeck would have to get out, since the U.N. "does not intend to interfere in the relations between the government and diplomats...
...sake of U.S. prestige, the "Peace Corps" can not afford to make mistakes. Sir Hugh Scott Taylor, a foundation executive, found in the medieval children's crusade a spirit common with the "Peace Corps" plan. The reference was not meant mockingly, but, taken as a mark of disdain, it suggests a real danger. Membership in a "Peace Corps" calls for roughing it without complaint, for adapting to a strange cultural environment with tact and grace, for representing one's country both honestly and positively. This is work for neither a child nor a wild-eyed crusader. When abroad, these...
...cost housing. It does not tackle the hard, basic job of building an industrial economy that will routinely produce good-paying jobs and good housing. Doing that job, says Under Secretary of State Douglas Dillon, U.S. delegation chief at Bogota, and a thoughtful banker with a refreshing disdain for diplomatic cant, may easily cost $10 billion...