Word: scorned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jeffries, whose critics accuse him of being a racist, an anti-Semite and a homophobe, was greeted by more than just those who turned out to see or protest him. His appearance drew the scorn and contempt of many of Harvard's top professors...
...Catholic scholars, however, increasingly follow liberal Protestant thinkers and doubt that this was literally true. Father Raymond Brown, the leading U.S. Catholic authority on the Bible, has declared the issue "unresolved." Jane Schaberg, who chairs the religion department at the University of Detroit, goes further. She contends, to traditionalist scorn, that the unwed Mary was impregnated by a man other than fiance Joseph and that she was a liberated woman who was "not identified or destroyed by her relationship with...
...does their weary brother Jack, a defrocked priest sent home from his mission in Africa for embracing local gods and customs. Suffused through the background are the inescapable memories of Ireland: pagan revelry and medieval Christian learning, invasion and oppression, the landlord's power and the peasant's scorn...
...discrimination in housing, employment or any other situation where close physical contact and strict discipline is not mandatory--as it is in positions of military command. My reason for saying that is that many people consider homosexuals to be abnormal, and unfortunately they are often the objects of scorn and abuse. As wrong as that is, it is just what we call human nature, and it will take time for attitudes to change. I do not question their patriotism, dedication or ability to serve--but the perception that the average sailor, airman or infantry man has of them because...
...short, some Europeans saw the Thomas affair as a sex scandal. Hence all the scorn for American "prudery" and "puritanism...