Word: disdain
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...disdain, Muggeridge overlooks an even more pernicious influence. As editor of Punch, he hears the magazine described as revolutionary. "Correct," he replies, "Punch is now critical of all authority,, including revolutionary." In so criticizing every human endeavor, in mocking not merely politicians but their constituencies, the curmudgeon eventually leaves himself no earthly attachments outside the self. It may indeed be that Ecclesiastes is correct and that all is vanity...
...King's position on education has been shameful. He presided over the now-infamous midnight reorganization of public higher education; and his attitude has always been one of disdain...
Investigators have never reached a consensus on ailurophobia-extreme fear of cats. Some postulate a traumatic childhood experience with felines, while others blame the cat's galvanizing stare, or disdain for affection, or even its slippery, furred coat and unfriendly, arching backbone. Traditional superstitions still exist: cats suck the breath from sleeping infants, sour fresh milk, forecast the phases of the moon and serve Satan. A black cat is bad luck. According to old belief, a cat, through necromancy or something even more unfathomable, has been given nine lives. Such Draculatic positions, however, are rare. Cats themselves often seem...
...nothing on it that says we're not carrying guns and we're harmless. You really don't know who you're going to find. It could be John Dillinger." The agents regard the restriction as sure evidence of the State Department's snobbish disdain for cops. When the question of allowing the agents to be armed came up a few years ago, a State Department official objected indignantly that gun toting "is abhorrent to the tradition and constitution of the State Department...
Yuri Kapralov, the lone Soviet participant in the nationwide proceedings, offered similarly questionable statements. It may be too optimistic to expect objectivity from a government spokesman, but Kapralov demonstrated a disdain for factual clarity that was truly remarkable. His claim that the United States had been the first to develop intercontinental ballistic missiles and missile launching submarines, thereby forcing the Soviet Union to respond, is simply not true. The Soviets first tested an ICBM in 1957, well before the first U.S. test firing in November 1958. Soviet missile submarines, though markedly inferior to the American Polaris system, appeared earlier...