Word: disdainful
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Radcliffe justly takes pride in the advancements it has helped women achieve in the Harvard community. When Radcliffe began, many people looked upon the idea of highly educated women with suspicion and disdain. Now undergraduate women at Harvard can participate fully in University life, unhindered by most outside barriers; but those gains for women have parallelled a loss in Radcliffe's raison d'etre...
Around the bend of the roller coaster, a booth peddled oysters, glasses of chilled Muscadet and posters decrying Brittany's disastrous oil spill of last spring. With a fine Gallic disdain for international worker solidarity, another food kiosk sold sangria and the message: SPAIN IN THE COMMON MARKET. A BAD BLOW FOR FRANCE. Workers hawked dish towels underneath a sign pleading SAVE THE TEXTILE INDUSTRY OF THE VOSGES. Break-the-bottle games featured images of such popular villains as French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, that advocate of dreaded social...
...collaborated on a score of scripts and had an uncredited influence on the structure and content of many other major films. But Hollywood also evoked the worst in him. During the Depression, Mankiewicz and his colleagues were earning $1,250 a week. Mank gambled it away, with as much disdain as if he had stolen it from his children's Monopoly set. "Hollywood money," explained his friend Charles MacArthur, "is something you throw off the ends of trains...
Like Dickens' Ghost of Christmas Past, Richard Nixon [July 17] has returned to the public arena to haunt us. My contempt for Nixon has dissipated. He is a pathetic, flawed character. My disdain is reserved for the boobs, yahoos and Neanderthals of Leslie County, Ky., who yelled and whooped and hailed Nixon as if he were a conquering hero...
Kraft also has more of a taste and talent for political detail work than the Georgians, in cluding Carter, whose disdain for party regulars was an asset during the campaign but has been a weakness in office. "Some things were falling between the cracks," acknowledges Jordan, who recommended that Kraft's $56,000-a-year fence-mending post be created...