Word: disdain
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...city council warned: "Who favors this disgraceful business will fall into disdain. The council will expose to public judgment all those who persist in these immoral actions." Most of Celle's citizens paid no attention...
...Never did I think when I began my religious life," he told his Argentina listeners, "that I would some day return to these microphones. But the life of the true soldier of Christ is based on obedience and discipline . . . Our youths, with their eyes on material things, disdain the priesthood. But I, who have had in abundance all that our youths dream of possessing, have come to say to you that all the world's gold, fame, power, applause and pleasure is not equivalent to one hour in the service of Christ...
...secretary, petite, pretty, 31-year-old Vesta Orlick (he was divorced from his first wife in 1948). His new marriage seems to agree with him (he quipped: "I think I'll try it every year"). He now likes cooking (including baked cucumbers & cheese), and, after years of pretended disdain for outdoor exercise ("I believe in it for others"), fishing...
...Dwyer held to his attitude of grand disdain. He admitted that a few wire rooms were running, but he had 300 cops chasing bookies and could not in good conscience spare more for the job. The taxpayers' children, he intoned, had to be helped across dangerous streets. As for the slums-the Republican, Morris, had only recently discovered them. "I," said the ex-Cop O'Dwyer, "lived in them...
...rule-makers have devised a devilish set of directives and frustrations. The experts tell you there's no holds barred, but the man who uses his knee in a climb is roundly booed from below, and the student who grabs the belaying rope for support is hold in disdain for the rest of his days. And you can't walk to a cliff by the back slope, you've got to scale the face. And you can't scale the face the easy way, you've got to climb the barest flattest, most unyielding wall in sight...