Word: scornful
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...first time Jefferson Airplane played Ed Sullivan with Grace slick in blackface. But I was a little sorry too. You couldn't hear the music right over TV; and you guessed they just did it for money. And there were certain bands expected to stay away from TV, to scorn the commercial networks even to charge lower prices for their records out of kindness. They were someone to identify with against them, all the ones who aren't in on the secret of the lyrics. We were like the musicians, we two knew what all the neck-tied Agnews didn...
...list (a short one) of the President's intimate friends. For all his outer ego, his fierce driving of subordinates and his international celebrity, Kissinger has a servant's heart for Nixon when it comes to power and ideas. He has been willing to subject himself to the scorn of his academic peers (after the Cambodian invasion) and serve the President with a total loyalty that is matched inside the White House only by H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler and Kissinger's own deputy on the National Security Council, General Alexander Haig. Once, after listening to department...
...handling this whole controversy because he fears what blacks could do if they were organized politically around an issue. Memories of 1969 are not very far from Dunlop's mind, and he knows that in comparison to what happened at Cornell, Harvard escaped relatively unscathed. Dunlop has only scorn and contempt for white radicals; for blacks, he has fear...
...have complained that they don't know where Le Point stands. In recent weeks the magazine has urged retention of the force de frappe, France's nuclear-weapons unit, and the construction of a major new port near Marseille, both targets of L'Express's scorn. According to Imbert, the editors plan in the near future "to personalize the style somewhat, to get away from the strictly reportorial tone...
Today, more than 5,000,000 British enthusiasts are pitching at the pug (bull's-eye), and darting claims more participants than any other game in the sports-mad land. Thus when some upstart Yanks recently challenged the vaunted British there was open scorn in London pubs. "It's like snooker," sniffed one expert. "You figure that the best in Britain are the best in the world." Mrs. Jacqueline Eagan, 44, one of three American team members who survived an elimination tournament among 5,000 of the U.S.'s top tossers, figured differently: "We expect to beat...