Word: scoffs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that the Government "make known, widely and forcefully, the general policies that it thinks would advance the public interest." said Cox, but "there are a number of reasons for thinking that in the long run some new procedural arrangement will be required." After all, "only the most cynical will scoff at the restraints imposed by reason and the desire to do the job right." Cox's clear implication was that Government is best able to judge the restraints imposed by reason, that Government is most highly motivated by a desire to do the job right...
...seem more at home blasting holes in a football line than competing against the whippet-thin men who run the mile. His shoulders are broad, his 16½-in. calves bulge with muscle, and at 171 lbs. he weighs fully 15 lbs. more than any of his competitors. Experts scoff at his size ("If he were lighter, he could run faster"), his racing tactics ("unscientific"), his graceless running style ("like a Sherman tank with overdrive"). But they all concede that, at 23, Peter Snell is the fastest middle-distance runner in track history...
...asked New Hampshire's Republican Governor Samuel Wesley Powell Jr. "Why not go for the presidency?'' So last week mused Wes Powell, 46, even as he recuperated in White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., from a mild heart attack suffered in March. The scoffers could scoff and the skeptics could skept, but Powell was in dead earnest about grabbing for the brass ring in 1964. He had already laid out a set of plans, based mainly on his record as a rip-roaring stump speaker, a perpetual-motion campaigner-and a fellow who has never seemed to know...
...Womb of Time." Judge Learned Hand often seemed almost to scoff at the law he served. "The aim of the law.'' he once said, "is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man." He was a legal secularist, denying the existence of a natural law and cautioning younger judges not to "embrace the exhilarating opportunity of anticipating a doctrine which may be in the womb of time, but whose birth is distant." He was also a charitable judge who could write, in reversing a lower court's refusal to grant citizenship to a woman because...
...America's sake, we take sharp issue with the leadership now in power," he said. "I am sick and tired of hearing alleged leaders scoff at a balanced budget." Putting aside his prepared text for a moment, he snapped angrily: "Is it so wicked to show some respect for the pioneer qualities of thrift and energy? . . . I believe deeply that continuing deficit spending is immoral . . . I look in vain, and with deep concern, for fiscal responsibility today in public affairs...