Word: disdain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mocked the first-years sporting '00 shirts, wondering how one could take pride in any attire proudly proclaiming one as a "zero." And we visited our old dorm rooms, imparing unwarranted advice to this year's new denizens as they stared at us with looks of amusement and/or disdain and/or both. Sometimes they mistook us for first-years, launching into the name and where you're from (in Harvard life and in real life) diatribe, but otherwise, they saw us as superfluous appendages, people who had long since passed their prime and outlived their usefulness...
While Coats and his colleagues' disdain for homosexuals is on a much, much smaller scale than genocide or slavery, its justification is similar. Homosexuals are a minority in this society, and as a result, their rights should be given extra protection and assurance. As James Madison wrote in Federalist No. 10 on the vice of faction: "There are again two methods of removing the causes of faction: the one, by destroying the liberty which is essential to its existence; the other, by giving to every citizen the same opinions, the same opinions, the same passions and the same interests." America...
...also prompted another round of soul searching by the mainstream media. Once again the nation's major networks and newspapers were forced to follow the tabloids' lead, pursuing a story they felt uneasy with, unearthed by a publication many regard with disdain. They were wary, not just of the story's source and tawdry sexual details but of its timing. The Star's scoop was first made public on the very day of President Clinton's acceptance speech, in a front-page story in the New York Post, a newspaper owned by conservative media mogul Rupert Murdoch. (Murdoch once owned...
...soured on the press and view it as an enemy. I still love the press; what I detested then and still do is the ability of political spin doctors like Rollins to manipulate it and to deceive it with misinformation. It is Rollins' political profession that has earned my disdain...
...this isn't just any T shirt. "It's cop humor," shrugs Pat Gutkoska, whose print shop is across the street from the Chicago Police Eighth District Station. "The cops that see it know it's a joke." The department's official take on the shirt is offhand disdain. Some police say the word has come down from Mayor Richard M. Daley that wearing or selling the T shirt could lead to disciplinary action (a police spokesman denies the threat). 'When asked about it by a local TV reporter earlier this summer, Daley muttered, "It's just some guy trying...