Word: disdain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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More often than not, Husband is winning the argument, if we are to believe the sales figures. Bring together a group of professional men, and the disdain--the unmitigated contempt--for the minivan is palpable. But the minivan is so obviously inoffensive, and so clearly practical, that the contempt must be rooted in something deeper than mere taste. Part of it is the timeless lure of male fantasy. There were days when I myself refused to leave the house without my chaps, my six-gun and my ten-gallon hat. Or rather, my two-gallon hat. I was six years...
...elections." Clinton aides consider the digs meanspirited, but their boss has a different take. According to a senior official, the President laughed at the comments, chalking them up to the intricacies of Canadian-Belgian relations. Seems that Chretien was speaking to Belgian Prime Minister JEAN-LUC DEHAENE. Belgians disdain French Canadians as bumpkins, Clinton explained, so Chretien was just trying to impress Dehaene with his toughness. Clinton later told reporters, "You gotta blow something like that off." His planned revenge: "To get even on the golf course...
...both the IRA and pro-British paramilitary groups to disarm gradually during the negotiations. That compromise didn't satisfy the Protestant leaders, one of whom charged that the plan treated them "almost with contempt" by refusing to specify details. On the other side of the table, there was disdain. "This has been a very childish stunt by the Unionist parties, but it's not going to have the effect that they think it may have," said Seamus Mallon, who as deputy leader of the Social Democratic and Labor Party represents most Catholics. TIME's London bureau chief Barry Hillenbrand agrees...
Taylor's reportage packed a special punch because it was his November 1996 article in the American Lawyer that made the first persuasive case for taking Jones seriously. (He called her case stronger than Anita Hill's and blamed the media's disdain for her on class bias.) What followed was a stampede to Jones' side as journalists--who would rather be called anything other than elitists--repented mentioning her big hair and laughing at James Carville's line about the result of dragging "a hundred dollars through a trailer park." Suddenly, Jones was no longer a gold digger backed...
...center of the protest in a government class the fall of 1995, when he dressed in drag to rail against Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '53 for his anti-gay comments at a prominent Colorado trial, his disdain for women's studies and his support of the controversial The Bell Curve...