Word: scorned
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...Startled for a moment, Schlesinger smiled and replied, "He isn't here." It soon became clear, however, that Schlesinger's high-level hosts knew their Washington Who's Who. In Peking, Defense Minister Yeh Chien-ying and Foreign Minister Ch'iao Kuan-hua expressed their scorn for the Secretary of State. They denounced Soviet-U.S. detente as "appeasement" caused by a "Munich mentality." Calling for greater U.S. vigilance in the face of the Soviet military buildup, Ch'iao cited a Russian proverb: "When you dance with a bear, keep your ax handy...
Harry and Polly removed to Paris to escape the scorn and--even less endurable--dullness of Boston. Harry soon gave up all pretense of banking and decided to become a poet-genius. But it was his wealth and flamboyance which brought him into contact with such authentic literary personages as Hart Crane, Archibald MacLeish, Hemingway, Lawrence and Joyce, some of whose works he later published in his Black Sun Press...
...remembered her mammy's proud boast, "Ain't nothin' but black niggers here on massa's place." And she tried not to think about "sassoborro," the name her ebony-black father--his mouth curled in scorn used to call those with mulatto skin. She was grateful that they weren't there to see--and share--her shame. But she knew that...all anyone had to do was compare her color and the baby's to know what had happened--and with whom.... But before she fell asleep, Kizzy decided...she would never regard him as other than the grandson...
Activities like these sometimes draw the scorn of those who dwell on the flaws of American society. But these civic efforts are the grace notes of any community...
...privately of his dismay at the New Englanders' "overruling influence in council ?their low cunning, and those levelling principles winch men without character and without fortune in general possess." Virginia's Carter Braxton worried similarly about the "democratical" tendencies of New Englanders. Some men in the north, meantime, scorn the southerners for their dependence on slave labor. In all sections, there persists a powerful streak of Toryism. In the Congress itself are men like Pennsylvania's John Dickinson, who, though not a Tory, held out for reconciliation with England, arguing that the break was unnecessary, or at least...