Word: disdain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Director William Casey, and a Chief of Staff Don Regan whose proclaimed mastery of spin control failed miserably when faced with a matter of substance. And while these officials floundered, Oliver North, with the approval of his boss on the National Security Council staff, John Poindexter, showed a reckless disdain for the laws of the land by creating a covert network to fund the contras in Nicaragua while trading arms to the Iranians...
...will say this: it would be ridiculous to expect men and women simply to disdain sex; it is, after all, a natural desire. Yet there is something peculiarly repugnant about the form this desire has assumed. There used to be a certain coyness about sex. Along with that coyness went a recognition that sex--especially sex with passion--pointed to something beyond...
...should assist the "small band of students and graduate students who already take politics seriously and who find wherever they go the disdain of their peers," said Neustadt, who was the first director of the IOP and a former aide to President Harry S. Truman...
...Guggenheim (38,000 sq. ft.) or the Whitney (23,000 sq. ft.). It will be a long time before the Met's contemporary wing starts bursting at the seams like its older cousins. Its | architects, Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo & Associates, are masters of institutional tone, with a steely disdain for the outre and the overdeclarative; nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art, as one can see in their handling of such previous Met expansions as the American Wing and the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing. The detailing is exact, the procession of spaces through...
...they were just game wardens, the lowly emissaries of flower-fondling environmentalists. Today, in what remains of the Old West, this harshland sustains, just as it destroys, and each man at times becomes his own law: justice is simply survival. This sovereign streak fuels a wicked disdain for any authority -- especially game wardens...