Word: scorned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...construction in the country, 60% of the components were produced in Cuba. He maintained that mechanization had increased to the point where 100,000 sugar-cane cutters were doing the work formerly done by 350,000, and that similar productivity gains applied to other branches of industry. Castro heaped scorn on some other Latin American nations, particularly Brazil, where huge foreign debts accompany "constant reports of social calamities, unemployment, hunger, inflation...
...environmentalist no wiser than his colleagues can make it big if he has vast self-confidence and the gift of articulation. Politicians who become national figures must be glib enough to operate under what Russell Baker calls "television's refusal to allow thought before speech." Even those who scorn publicity usually pursue it when they have a book or film to promote. Goodbye, Columbus made Philip Roth known; Portnoy's Complaint made him a celebrity. When a new novel appears, Roth unbends a little, but, as he told PEOPLE magazine, he dislikes questions about home, the family, marriage...
Shirley, you jest. Men are so far behind that most of them are not anywhere in sight. Invisible, that's what they are, even to themselves. They creep around feeling "helpless, really helpless," apologizing when outraged feminists catch them displaying what is called, with great scorn, "too much male energy." Such are the views, anyway, of Tony D'Aguanno, Michael Blyth and Chic Drolette, three psychological therapists from Berkeley, Calif., who have started what they call a "male empowerment group." Not a support group, if you please, although what goes on in,this subversive cell is much like...
...ADMINISTRATION and Senate, during this week of miswords and misdeeds, had already caused damage to the American international reputation. Perhaps more important, the politicians in Washington, by displaying scorn for the United Nations, gave way to, and fostered, the isolationist bent that lies just below the surface of many Americans' views and all American foreign policy. This reluctance to assume a leading role in world diplomacy, a role that should have been natural for a major power, contributed to the deterioration of international relations preceding World Wars I and II. Immediately after World War II, the U.N. Preparatory Commission concluded...
...initiative, most liberals would happily applaud the president. But over the past two and one half years, no such initiative has appeared. And this week, just when it seemed that opportunity for bipartisan approval of the Administration had finally developed, Reagan botched it and invited another dose of rightful scorn from liberal quarters...