Word: disdain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...everyone was delighted for Armstrong, Johnson kicked up as much frosty disdain as admiration. It began a month ago, during the running of the Lauberhorn race at Wengen, Switzerland, over a shortened course and in conditions so poor that the grand old Austrian avalanche Franz Klammer tried unsuccessfully to get the race canceled. There Johnson became the first American to win a World Cup downhill. After the race, the popular and easygoing Klammer called Johnson "a little Nasenbohrer"-nose picker-who had sneaked into first place by a fluke. At Sarajevo, while Johnson skied superb training runs during the week...
...their choice of flag bearer, perhaps even the athletes were expressing some disdain for the hypocrisies of amateurism. "We ain't pure," U.S. Olympic Committee President William Simon stated plainly before the Games began, calling for "a uniform definition of amateurism" or "being honest about it and having open Games." Citing the track-and-field trust-fund accounts as an example of "pure sham," Simon spoke of athletes "taught how to cheat" and shook his head...
...Good Fight also tells of the disdain that the members of the Lincoln Brigade faced when they returned to the United States. Even though some members of the Brigade were communists and others were not politically minded at all, all were blacklisted during the McCarthy...
...signal the end of one of the most foolish and dangerous trends in U.S. Soviet relations. Not since Kruschev came to America in the 1960s has a Russian or an American bead of state visited the other country during their tenure. Reagan, indeed, seems to have a grand imaginative disdain for Russia, as if it were really not a country worth visiting, but a land where savage Darth Vaders punish and abuse helpless Ivan and Vanyas. Unfortunately for Mr. Reagan's Jim and Sally, however, Jvan and Vanya are part of a very powerful country which seeks to negotiate with...
Morgan does not hide his disdain for the management style that flourished under ousted Chairman Raymond Kassar. Says Morgan: "The way Atari did business is dramatically opposed to the values I live by and believe in. There was an incredible arrogance at Atari. It was a rigid, unchallenged and unchecked giant, and it has paid every penalty imaginable for its mistakes...