Word: scorned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tongue' as 'that God damn Roosevelt,' short, snappy and staccato-but without grinding the vocal gears. The other crowd snarls it savagely, adagio, making two words out of God-like Gaw-ud-and two out of damn-like da-yam-growled with heart-pumping scorn and generally with a table-pounding drum beat. I belong to the lighter, staccato left wing...
This was not altogether fair to the fair-playing, liberty-loving Britons in England. But in India the British people were no longer differentiated from the British Raj. Indian scorn included Americans as allies of the British, despite a faint hope that the U.S. might still intervene...
...From Augusta, Me. to Sacramento, Calif. almost all Legislatures had passed resolutions in favor of doing their work speedily and going home. Last week the Indianapolis News heaped scorn on the Indiana Legislature: "With utter fearlessness the Legislature at last is getting around to the business of doing something final and remedial about the bullfrog crisis. In the process of enactment also are war measures dealing with the mussel, the raccoon and the migratory tomcat...
Defensively the New Georgia group is not much yet. The Navy showed its scorn by sending great, vulnerable PBYs, which are ordinarily reserved for reconnaissance, to attack Munda Field. But if the Japs succeed in building up their strength, the New Georgia group may prove a thorn in the flank of any U.S. attack farther up the line. The Japs might even put in enough strength to oblige the U.S. forces to take it first. And if U.S. forces cannot skip a few islands now & then, the road to Tokyo will be long indeed...
Back in the '80's some indifferent Yardster referred idly to the growing institution on Garden Street as the "Harvard Annex," and that name stuck for years, faintly indicative of the vague scorn with which undergraduates looked on their feminine associates. Somehow Radcliffe never started; it just grew. One day in 1879 there were some girls getting instructed by Harvard teachers. After a while they were a college, and now that college is Radcliffe, and puts on plays with the HDC. In the intervening years poor Radcliffe has come to be a synonym for all that is unattractive in women...