Word: disdaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their first triumphant postwar conclave, the Witnesses cast off wartime tribulations. In Germany, their disdain for human authority had tumbled 6,000 of them into concentration camps. In the U.S., their religious scruples against saluting the flag had vexed mobs to tar & feather them and burn their homes. Over 4,000 had gone to jail for refusing either to serve in the armed forces or to be classified as conscientious objectors; Witnesses claimed they were all ministers of the gospel. But the Witnesses had thrived and multiplied a bit on a diet of rough treatment...
Once the idol of labor, he found himself under heavy fire this summer from the C.I.O.-P.A.C. and from the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. His independence and disdain of party lines caused at least one section of his party, the Yellowstone County Democratic Central Committee, to repudiate onetime New Dealer Wheeler as a "party renegade" (though his good friend Harry Truman had tried to give him a hand). The veterans of the war he had tried to ignore campaigned ardently against...
...heels of his boots-his favorite hobby. "I have learned not to run up a high temperature and blood pressure," said Speaker Moses, "over the intolerant off-scourings of minds inflamed by revolutionaries . . . the wisecracks of sophisticates who are the eunuchs of our metropolitan seraglio, the lofty disdain of ivory-tower planners, the bitter, irresponsible mouthings of the radical press, the cheese spread of radio commentators and the slipcover advertising of former mayors." The Institute awarded the Commissioner a gold medal: for "distinguished services to humanity...
Aplomb. With lofty disdain, Wall Street traders set their sights far beyond last week's pother of strikes, wage demands, price-control squabbles and reconversion growing pains. Bursting with confidence in the future industrial boom (and the hope of lower taxes), the traders bid up the price of industrial stocks to an eight-year high...
...patient, deep disdain...