Word: scoff
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...young woman compromises and cheapens herself by openly lending herself to the companionship of young men, with all that implies. Boys pretend to scoff at such things but I don't think they really do--they like us to be pure and at their mercy or else whores who needn't trouble their consciences. But whores at least get paid...
...course, there was a batting cage in the next town when I was growing up. I'd visit the place every once in a while with my brother and father. I'd brave the Nolan Ryan cage, bat lefty in the Luis Tiant cage, and scoff at the kids my age who never got past the Little League cage...
Many women scoff at this portrait of the female barracuda maneuvering her way around corporate reefs. "I have found a tremendous amount of helping and generosity among the women in my industry," says Mary McCarthy, 42, a senior vice president at MGM/UA Communications in Beverly Hills. Lawyers Renee Berliner Rush, 31, and Julie Anne Banon, 32, say they became best friends while working for a Manhattan executive-search firm. "From the day we began working together, we believed that the way to succeed was to work with and help each other, not to work against each other," says Rush...
...byways every year. This summer at least a dozen tours have offered purportedly the same entertainments as those on the Great White Way. But are they really? The idea that what you see in Peoria might be every bit as good as Broadway makes many New York theater professionals scoff. In the not too distant past there was ample basis for derision. On this summer's evidence, however, the doubters may be narrow-minded and wrong...
...bizarre theory about the origins of AIDS has been getting play in the Soviet press lately: that the illness is the result of U.S. germ-warfare experiments gone wild. AIDS experts scoff at the farfetched notion, and Washington has accused the Soviets of waging a "disinformation campaign." U.S. Ambassador to Moscow Arthur Hartman publicly protested a Pravda cartoon depicting a U.S. scientist and an officer exchanging a vial of AIDS viruses...