Word: scornful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first real hero of the machine age, and in a sense the last. For not only was he in control of his machine, he was its partner; it was still possible to love it. Today's vast machines, casually performing vastly greater feats, exact service; but they scorn affection. They require large teams to tend them, and dwarf the individual...
Nasser spared few of his Arab brothers his scorn. He attacked King Feisal of Saudi Arabia as an "Anglo-American agent" who is "like a snake seeking to bite." He dismissed King Hussein of Jordan as "an employee of the CIA." Classifying his foes under the Communist label of "imperialistic stooges," he also called President Habib Bourguiba of Tunisia and the Shah of Iran "only the tools of America." He accused members of the federal government of Aden of being "traitors and agents" and called upon them to resign and do penance. Traveling further afield, he claimed that West Germany...
...columnist for William Randolph Hearst's San Francisco Examiner. He never wrote anything longer than a short story; he was not in the habit of writing a paragraph when just a word would do. The Devil's Dictionary, a lexicon of Bierce's scorn for mankind and all its institutions -now expanded by material that the editors say has not been anthologized before-stands today not only as the distillation of Bierce's thought but as epigrammatic misanthropy bordering on genius...
...same Harvard students who speak of the "summies" with scorn admit to having joined the "competiton for the bunnies"--as one put it--with relish. (Actually, the boys out-numbered the girls last year by more than 400.) Director Crooks, who views the scene with ironic humor from his seventh-floor office in Holyoke Center, remarks that "Some Harvard students wear those 'winter' buttons and keep to themselves, but some plunge right in and enjoy...
...Annamese Cordillera, the spiny range that bisects I Corns, to the South China Sea-a twelve-mile corrdor bristling with barbed wire, minefields, sensing devices, pillboxes and watchtowers. Its function will be to provide a wide field of fire in case of attack, but U.S. officers privately scorn it as a kind of mini-Maginot Line that will cost far more than it is worth. For one thing, V.C. mortars are zeroed in on the zone and have already killed four men and wounded 62. For another, the corridor will stop before it reaches the mountains -which is precisely where...