Word: disdain
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Fourth, it is not evident from his words that he understands the letter annoyed not only the female but also the male community. Anyone who dares speak about our relatives and friends in such a way can only deserve our disdain...
...Kirkland House, Wednesdays are off-limits; at Lowell, disdain Friday lunches after 12:30; at Elliot, don't come for dinner after 6:15; at Kirkland and Leverett, starve after...
WHEN THE Reagan Administration argued in front of the Supreme Court this week for a narrow interpretation of Title IX of the Education Amendment Act of 1972, a law prohibiting sexual discrimination by any university receiving federal funds, it abandoned its passive disdain for women's rights in favor of an active hostility toward them...
...green light flashed in Damascus just in time to save what little was left of the Reagan Administration's policy in Lebanon. A pro-Western Arab diplomat, scarcely concealing his disdain for both U.S. diplomacy and the indecisiveness of the Gemayel regime, remarked last week, "We're going to get a settlement here for the U.S. despite...
...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...