Word: scornful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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West Germany reacted with scorn. Chancellor Konrad Adenauer made plain that he will accept controls on German arms "only if others are controlled too." He said he favored the plan sponsored by Britain's Anthony Eden: full sovereignty for Germany and simultaneous membership in the Brussels Pact and the NATO alliance...
Ordinarily, the dapper little man in the paddock only had sour scorn for hunch players. But hunch shook him hard that afternoon in Chicago when a horse pulled up in the walking ring and looked him square in the face. "If ever a horse told anyone he was going to win, that horse told me," says Handicapper Hugh Matheson. "I went over and got a bet down on his nose. When I told my wife, she was furious. 'That goat,' she exploded, 'That goat...
...Biographer Monelli sees it. he was terrified into terrorizing Italy. In 1925, "the Fascist regime became a regime of force," all opposition was suppressed, total censorship clamped on the newspapers. His followers made sure that the Duce's balloon of a phony identity was not punctured by public scorn. They kept him surrounded by "policemen in various disguises" playing the equally phony role of "fanatical admirers." These cops, known as "the Presidential Division," became so expert at exaltation that sometimes even Mussolini suspected they were not on the level...
...good works are so famed that the veterans' annual fishing trip, now in its eighth year, is a Texas institution, and boat owners are glad to lend their boats for it. Nevertheless, Anderson has nothing but scorn for the "bighearted amateur do-gooder." Says he: "There's no greater waste in the world." The reason is that Anderson does not consider himself an amateur do-gooder. He is a professional...
Since the French deposed and exiled fractious Sultan Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef last year, they have had no trouble with the complaisant new Sultan, Sidi Mohammed ben Moulay Arafa. But they have had plenty of trouble with Istiqlal nationalists, who scorn the new Sultan as a stooge. Since last August, the poorly organized nationalists, armed with smuggled hand grenades, homemade bombs, pistols and machine guns, have killed 101 persons, wounded 189 more. France's reverses in Indo-China have given the insurgents new heart. Recently, they circulated clandestine letters saying that "Casablanca will be another Dienbienphu." Help from...