Word: disdain
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Despite his disdain for Socrates, Stone concluded his discussion with a preview of his next talk--scheduled for Thursday--is which he said he would show that not withstanding the case against him. Socrates could have won acquittal. His third and final speech next week will attack Plato's vision of what Athens should have been...
...license and carry. In an instant, he moved his hand and, in a theatrical reflex, leveled a pointing finger at the retreating shapes. With the gun in hand, he knew, knew, he would have fired. Aiming for the legs. But he certainly could have killed them both for their disdain...
...farewell messages which annually fill this space, many of my predecessors have gotten the same subject out of context. They have erred toward excessive disdain, describing a Harvard that transformed classmates into sniveling pre-professional sycophants, traumatized by callous bureaucrats, elitist professors and pitiless academic advisors. Naturally, then, the beleaguered undergraduate wretches lack the heart for political commitment...
This rivalry slices deeper than most, affecting the towns as much as the teams. Washington-based Columnist Art Buchwald, who bows to no one in his disdain for the Cowboys, has smoked seven cigars in a single Dallas game and does not remember exhaling. Speaking as a Texan (Spur, Texas; pop. 1,690) living in Washington, Writer Aaron Latham describes the ill feelings he harbors toward the Redskins: "It's a gut reaction. I distrust and dislike Government, and that's what the city is all about...
Allen, who came to Washington from the Los Angeles Rams, brought along a history of controversial dealings with Dallas (charges of spying and other dirty tricks). Allen's disdain for the Cowboys prohibited him from calling one of his own players, Defensive End Dallas Hickman, by his first name. "George Allen never used to say 'the Dallas Cowboys,' " recalls John Wilbur, a Redskins guard of that time. "It was always 'the goddamned Dallas Cowboys.' " In a ringing inaugural address, Allen pledged never to lose to them. At Dallas that first October a Redskin runner named...