Word: disdainfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...classmate would report another classmate, but with all upperclassmen plus the officers of the executive department as a police force, only the first class was able to get by with very much. Infractions of the generally accepted moral code (including cheating) were held to a minimum by the general disdain of the regiment for such practices and any infraction of either the moral code or of major Academy regulations were reported even by classmates . . . E. K. PERRYMAN JR. Annapolis '45 Bethlehem...
...vital, fertilizing kind, and I am glad that an English publisher has, at last, been found after many years to bring it out." As for the lurid passages which had caused the book to be banned in New York and Los Angeles, the Sunday Times critic dismissed them with disdain: "These descriptions, mechanistic and almost without eroticism, achieve a kind of insect monotony, like a boasting of beetles...
Last week a wave of shock ads ("No one under 16 will be admitted") ushered the claptrap into Manhattan. New York critics brushed the picture off with amused disdain. Whether taken as an inept counterfeit of Hollywood gangster movies or a witless parody, No Orchids is so ludicrous that its thugs' thinly disguised British accents seem minor imperfections...
...story, Author Paterson's narrator potters about in a house full of 19th Century oil paintings and sailing-ship logs. He pieces together the faded fragments of how a gingery Scots lass, "imperious as any queen," commanded a clipper ship a hundred years ago and won little but disdain for her courage. In another story, a stranger in a bar tells a writer about a Spanish matador whose wife's treachery and infidelity drove him out of the bull ring and into exile. Those sufficiently versed in trick endings may arrive at the conclusion before the author does...
...long, casually hacked open 6-lb. tins of pork luncheon meat to make one sandwich, gallon tins of fruit juice for one swallow. Outside one warehouse, a black-bearded U.S. sergeant dug his plastic C-ration spoon into a 10-lb. tin of corned beef with the delicate disdain of an overweight debutante at a smörgasbord...