Word: disrespectful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stars and Stripes. I can order all these men somewhere else. . . . But I don't intend to." A reporter suggested that the paper's chief value had been its staffers' freedom to write like newsmen, unshackled by the Article of War (No. 63) that forbids disrespect to superiors. Lee set him straight: "Any man in my command, sir, who wears the uniform is first of all a soldier." He thought the matter would settle itself, anyway, since the Army presently would be "a career Army rather than [a] democratic Army...
...vogue of Slavic music is definitely past; for Koussevitzky to make as much money out of Tchaikovsky as Freddy Martin is a form of disrespect for his audience. The celebration, with much pomp, of the eightieth birthday of a composer who stopped writing 20 years ago, and whose acceptability has been constantly sinking since, is not in the best of taste: let the poor...
...reality of the occupation problem was being driven home to them in a thousand little failures. Americans were losing face, Germans recovering their arrogance. They sometimes spoke to U.S. officers with their hands in their pockets, a sign of gross disrespect in Germany. They openly mocked the G.I.'s kidding, gum-chewing, easygoing ways. Former Hitler Youth even joined "Resistance Clubs" to fight the foreigners...
...When the young people (Ginny Simms and Robert Paige) settle themselves on a park bench for what promises to be a familiar lovers' scene, up pops Frisco from behind the bench with an expression of terrible pain on his face. He proceeds to kid the cooing with a disrespect for the romantic routine that should make this scene worth the price of admission to moviegoers who are weary of screen mush...
Respect for authority is a conspicuous Japanese trait, but it is by no means universal. Between 1921 and 1936 the Japs assassinated seven Cabinet members. Japanese history is full of civil war, revolt, secret conspiracy, and disrespect for the Emperor. When Perry opened Japan the government's word was not enough to make Japan safe for foreigners. Disorders ended only after western ships bombarded Shimonoseki...