Word: scornful
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...first Arab nations to supply Palestinian guerrillas with aid and training camps. They are perpetually threatening war against Israel. Last fall they sent tanks to seal off their border with Lebanon in an attempt to support Palestinian commandos there against the moderate Beirut regime. Nothing but scorn is reserved for the kingdom of Jordan; Atassi is fond of saying that "the liberation of Palestine passes through Amman," presumably along with Syrian tanks. Nor is neighboring Iraq counted as a friend though it, too, has a Baathist regime. The Iraqi branch of the party has been too independent to suit...
...been pointed out by the women's liberation movement, the plain woman is continually burdened by scorn and abuse, while the even moderately attractive one is the butt of infinite routine seduction attempts. The initial pleasure of this kind of attention soon wears off when you realize that in many cases it has nothing to do with you personally; it is not your fascinating presence that has drawn the men, but rather the simple fact that you are a woman...
...been pointed out by the women's liberation movement, the plain woman is continually burdened by scorn and abuse, while the even moderately attractive one is the butt of infinite routine seduction attempts. The initial pleasure of this kind of attention soon wears off when you realize that in many cases it has nothing to do with you personally; it is not your fascinating presence that has drawn the men, but rather the simple fact that you are a woman...
THEIR REVOLT was crushed in short order. But then, no regime can tolerate for long an uprising of its own praetorian guard, and when a group of sailors at Kronstadt confronted the Bolsheviks with cries of unfilled promises and scorn for falsified slogans, the government had no choice but to act fast...
...That then I scorn to change my state with kings...