Word: scoff
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...Self-Confident Man. The story might have stayed there except for Harry Truman's supreme confidence in himself. His first reaction to Brownell's charge was to scoff that he did not remember ever seeing an FBI report naming White in connection with spying. But he added that "as soon as we learned he was disloyal we fired...
...surpassed New York's bland "Hudson River School." To picture the raw splendor of Canada's glaciers, frozen lakes and jack-pine forests, they developed a rough & ready brand of French Impressionism, with broader strokes and darker colors. In the 1920s Canadian critics inclined to scoff at the group; now that its efforts are history, it is becoming more and more revered...
...other foreigners (including the U.S.S. Baltimore) as the Queen's yacht swept down the lines. As the Queen passed by, the Russians cheered her, and a flashing electric sign spelled out Sverdlov. Next day the Russian ship headed toward home, leaving Britons to wonder whether they should scoff any more at a navy that is bigger than theirs...
...dynasts have vanished in the wars, revolutions and other dislocations of the 20th century. Britain's empire, too, is diminished, yet neither hot war nor cold war, nuclear nor social fission has tarnished the bright gold of the British crown. In an age that tends to reject ritual, scoff at virtue and call magic coincidence the crown that was set this week on the head of Elizabeth II was more generally accepted because better understood, better loved because more respected, than it had ever been before...
...Negro is still deeply religious, although American churches have been slow in fighting discrimination before the altar. Says Marie Johnson, wife of Fisk University's President Charles Johnson: "I think we got the best out of Christianity, because we had to have it. No matter how we may scoff...