Word: scornful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Coming from the man whom Laborites dubbed a warmonger, such disappointing news was a far cry from the heroic scorn and we-can-do-it-better of Tory electioneering. Churchill made his speech in flat, conciliatory language, without any suggestion that the Socialists were to blame. Thus, what had been regarded as Labor's excuse for failure was now accepted as fact. Britain will be short of 1,500,000 tons of steel in 1952. Coal production will be about 5,000,000 tons short. There are at least 500,000 jobs waiting to be filled. Gloomy Treasury experts...
...Record to Beat. Richard's hockey ability comes naturally. As a boy growing up in a Montreal suburb, he used to skate to & from school in the best French-Canadian tradition. And even today, in solitary practice rituals that less talented players would scorn, Richard tears up & down the Canadiens' rink just to keep in shape. After four years of this sort of perseverance in Canada's bush hockey leagues, Richard hit the big time with the Canadiens...
...writer, for one, is endlessly baffled and fascinated at the never-ending plunge of the American male, lemming-like, into the sea of matrimony, to sink beneath the waves of department-and specialty-shop bills ... to say nothing of the storms of abuse, vilification, contempt and scorn from his wife and daughters . . . Nobody but a hopeless fool would sacrifice his freedom for such a horrible reward...
...story is the story of an artist rebuffed who turned misanthrope. "All rules, all canons of art," he said in his mature misanthropy, "vomit death." He dressed his subjects in leering masks, pitted them in futile struggles against each other. Even his own family was not proof against his scorn. In The Artist's Mother in Death, he stretched his mother's gaunt, grey-faced corpse ironically alongside a menacing array of medicine bottles. Although he never left Belgium, Ensor's pictures helped set off detonations all over Europe. "I indicated all the modern experiments," he boasted...
...long, long time after its formal chartering of Radcliffe in 1894, Harvard was generally cordial but distant. The attitude of most men was not so much one of scorn, but of (and we blush to use the word) indifference. In 1908 The Harvard Illustrated News (which was edited by H.V. Kaltenborn '09) ran an article entitled "Radcliffe on Harvard" which indicates attitudes then prevalent on both sides of the Common. The article, by an anonymous Radcliffe undergraduate, said in part...