Word: scornful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enemies of the West, just as the Communists are. There is a strong racist strain in their position, of which they are not ashamed. They believe that the Communists, though espousing the nationalist cause of all the great unwashed of the colonial world, regard their "dirty little brothers" with scorn and not a little amusement. In this respect, Salan would say, the Communists are far more discerning than the West...
Without once mentioning the S.A.O. by name, De Gaulle made a scathing attack upon it. He poured scorn on "unworthy Frenchmen launched into subversive and criminal activities" who were "exploiting and aggravating the anxiety of a segment of the population of European origin, the nostalgia of certain elements of the army, the rancor and the ambition of several military leaders or available politicians." They would fail, cried De Gaulle, because "the nation itself unanimously scorns and condemns these people, their conspiracies and their attacks...
...Stalin's terroristic "cult of personality," and his efforts to raise the living standards of the Russian people. On the opposite side are Red China and its tiny, faraway ally, Albania; they are apparently more willing to risk war against capitalism, they revere Stalin's memory, and scorn Russia's preoccupation with "bourgeois" material gains. "Molotov," in Moscow deliberations, is a shorthand reference to all these heresies...
...Nefertiti, and hair like black velvet. At 47, Gloria Rubio von Furstenberg Guinness is a classic example of a woman who knows what money can do-and does it with grace. Her husband is related to the famed Guinness brewing clan and is a multimillionaire (banking, airplanes, etc.). They scorn café society's more redolent haunts; they are just rich people who maintain a bejeweled private life, do nothing deliberately to attract publicity...
...respect is reserved for men who get things done, rather than those who just think about them. "We always need more men of ability who can do things," he says. "We need people with good judgment. We have a lot. But we never have enough." He has nothing but scorn for academicians who offer criticism without an alternate course of action. "Where does he sit?" snapped Kennedy in reaction to one scholarly critic. "At that university, not here where decisions have to be made...