Word: scornful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...third, that the powers of society must show a deference to the accomplishments of knowledge, and not philistinely scorn...
...reporter and Hemisphere drumbeater for the Trib. His reporting is sometimes ponderous in the Gothic provincial style approved by the late Colonel Bertie Mc-Cormick (who discovered Dubois when he was working oh the Panama Star & Herald), but it is always authoritative and accurate. And among newsmen, Dubois' scorn for censors-and his ingenuity in outwitting them-has made him a legendary figure...
...include far more than clothes fillies, set up sister editions in London and Paris, and won the Legion of Honor from a French government grateful for her grooming of Dame Fashion. Occasionally, Fashion defied Chase: her crusade against open-toed shoes ("inappropriate, unsightly, dirty") got nowhere, and her scorn failed to stop the rise of the gaunt-cheeked fashion model. "I've never seen so many slatterns in my life," she once huffed, flipping through Vogue...
...shot at a doe With a round of scorn, And got himself gored By a unicorn...
...this decisive moment of our national life, all of us, students and faculty, must feel the pride and responsibility of our mission.... We must now scorn those who in their job as teachers, give us examples of cowardice. We must show solidarity in the face of all attempts to intimidate us. We must show dignity in our unmoveable rejection of the present regime