Word: disdained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...burdens of history are balanced in the pages of Naipaul's many books and published daily on his mobile face. The muscles for consternation, annoyance, mirth, sadness, disappointment and disdain are well developed. A lifetime overcoming obscurity, asthma and anxiety among strangers in strange lands has taught him to expect the worst. His autobiographical writings toll with such gloomy remarks as "To see the possibility, the certainty, of ruin, even at the moment of creation: it was my temperament." To a visitor who has just blown through 10 1/2 time zones to arrive promptly for a meeting in Madras...
...later, the Sandinistas overthrew Somoza, thanks partly to La Prensa's valiant editorials and the Chamorro family's money. Then the widow Chamorro watched in horror as the Sandinistas, whom she had mistaken for unorthodox social democrats, revealed the extent of their allegiance to Moscow and Cuba and their disdain for democratic politics...
This impatience often expresses itself as a disdain for activist rhetoric, and chants like "Derek Bok, get the word, this is not Johannesburg" only harden the president's resolve not to cave in to outside pressure...
Truly, the hapless exploits of our 'rivals' test the limits of our boundless disdain. We would sincerely like to sprinkle faint praise upon other participants for their creativity and zeal, but in good faith, we cannot...
...message was clear. Not only do these aging leftists disdain people who they feel are simple-minded enough to be patriotic, but they have yet to mature beyond the ludicrous late '60s assertion that anyone who salutes the flag or is proud to be an America is a fascist...