Word: scornful
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Fast Eddie meets Tricia. From adolescent scorn to the American Dream. They meet at the Chapin School Christmas dance in 1963, and after a short seven-year courtship the romance has bloomed. She visits him for a weekend every fortnight at Harvard. (His apartment is conveniently across the street from the Holiday Inn where Tricia can rest, safe from temptation...
...ability to maintain our own humanity in doing so. After all, our crusade-albeit its exact nature was a matter of contention-we all defined, however variously, as a holy one. And yet the crowded air of Sanders smothered one in the ugliness of hostility and scorn. The steam that gushed from a punctured radiator seemed only a metaphor for the little patience that prevailed...
...that, in addition, at least nine of the members consult quite regularly with individual programs, committee chairmen, the officers, and the graduate secretary. I know of few other analogous Faculty committees as active or as helpful to the daily activities of an organization. Mr. Bryce's elevated scorn, as well as that of several of his fellow Committee members, is offensive and based on ignorance. Because the Dean of the College has been unable to be an active member it does not follow that such has been true of the remaining members...
...dairy, a hog farm. Inmates earn up to $24 a month turning out toilet paper and handsome furniture for the judges and prosecutors who got them the jobs. But for 180 rebels confined in Soledad's "X" and "O" wings, there is no play or work. Because they scorn prison rules, they are locked up tighter than lions...
...which the pimp pays lawyers and bail bondsmen, buys food, cars, clothes, and sometimes drugs for himself and his stable. A communal apartment, with a pimp and several women living together, is one way of saving money, but Iceberg Slim had only scorn for that arrangement: "That's not an elegant way to pimp...