Word: disdainful
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...wartime deportation and intelligence documents on Jews bearing his signature became public. Indicted for crimes against humanity in 1983, Papon avoided judgment until 1998 - but even then was convicted for illegal arrests and detention in connection with the Holocaust, rather than murder. Papon claimed his innocence with an open disdain for accusers and judges alike. Free on appeal in 1999, he bolted - but ventured no farther than Switzerland, where he was arrested in the exile of a Gstaad hotel. The French legal system finally put him in jail; now it has sprung him after he served barely a third...
...vast majority of party members and officials expressed disdain for Lienemann's accusations and stressed the urgency of restoring unity and cohesion. But successive speakers also made it evident that the Socialist Party?like the French left in general?is split between market-friendly "modernizers," such as former Economy Ministers Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Laurent Fabius, and harder leftists like former Employment Minister Martine Aubry and party heavyweight Henri Emmanuelli...
Supporting a call for new U.N. weapons inspections in Iraq is tricky ground for President Bush, and some of his more hawkish advisers have made no secret of their disdain for the idea. Vice President Cheney warned this week that Saddam has mastered the art of confounding the inspection regime, and argued that renewed U.N. inspections could create a dangerous "false comfort" over Iraq's weapons programs. But Secretary of State Colin Powell has been a strong advocate of demanding that Iraq submit to renewed inspections, along with such key international allies as Britain's prime minister Tony Blair. President...
...prevailing theory is that Iraqi officials killed Abu Nidal, 65, or encouraged one of his Palestinian lieutenants to do so. In ridding themselves of their former hired gun, a man who never could be trusted, the Iraqis could have been trying to undermine U.S. criticism by demonstrating a disdain for terrorism. "Abu Nidal joined the Iraqi early-retirement program," says Dan Schueftan, a lecturer at the Israeli Defense College...
...times he'd junk this anarch's mission, Disdain sprung rhythm, embrace tradition, And with resolve as firm as Priam's, He'd versify in four-foot iambs...