Word: disdainfully
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...early going Saturday, just about the only suspense concerned the fate of Kyle Disdain's Secret Santa, who (honest to God) passed out instructions to the 600 spectators present to stand in unison at the 18:00 mark of the first half and chant...
Almost from the first day of the Iranian money disclosures, Reagan has been suspect. He has been spared some savaging because of his well-known style of delegating authority and his disdain for details and the fact he has claimed no knowledge of the transfers of money. His word in the past has been good...
...whole company, was in the end bought off by the management, which promised to repurchase his holdings for $618.8 million plus expenses. The profit to Goldsmith and partners: $93 million. He said that his change of plans resulted in part from what he called, with lordly British disdain, "this ghastly Boesky affair...
...UNIVERSITY'S ENTIRE approach to protest has been one of disdain. The shantytown in the Yard last semester was looked upon as an odd extracurricular, and last spring's campaign for the Board of Overseers by three self-nominated candidates advocating divestment was viewed as an abomination of tradition. But pretending that there is no dissent and just hoping the protests will go away is not only poor strategy, it is precisely the sort of attitude that makes people so dissatisfied with Harvard in the first place...
...private wink, but it seemed to its one witness to go beyond the walls of the White House, out over the Rose Garden and well outside the Beltway that surrounds the nation's capital. It was as if Ronald Reagan had winked at America, sharing the people's amused disdain for the sort of thing that goes on in Big Government...