Word: scornful
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...days after his narrow escape from death, Charles de Gaulle went to Mass near his country home at Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises. Then, on his way back to Paris, just like hundreds of other Frenchmen, he stopped to gawk at the site of the attempted assassination. Full of scorn for the bungled job, which police still attribute to the right-wing Secret Army Organization (S.A.O.), De Gaulle cracked: "You know, those birds of the S.A.O. are as stupid as the fellows who guard...
...Well, it's about time! Mr. K. has finally resumed his nuclear arms testing. So now, perhaps, we too can once again get down to business without the amount of scorn we would have encountered before Khrushchev's announced intention of resuming nuclear weapons testing. Anyone who actually believed that he ever stopped nuclear testing, and I say this to all who did, is an idiot...
...playing for myself." He has never signed a recording contract, although a recording of his cabaret performances was illegally released in France, and Decca is attempting to release another De Plata disk over his lawyer's protests. Like many of his fellow guitarists, he has a scorn for non-gypsy audiences, often deliberately insults them in his improvised lyrics. He has turned down an offer from a New York nightclub because he gets seasick on ships and fears planes. Recently he tore up a glowing letter from Admirer Jean Cocteau. "You don't realize who Cocteau is," said...
...stepped from his green and white Boeing 707 at Washington's Andrews Air Force Base last week, U.S. officials were well aware that they had come to meet a talkative tiger. Days before in London, the plain-spoken President of Pakistan had demonstrated his old soldier's scorn for diplomatic niceties, had loudly broadcast his doubts about U.S. policy in Southeast Asia and threatened to "reexamine" his country's SEATO and CENTO commitments. At planeside, his grey guardsman's mustache bristling, Ayub was terse and blunt. "We naturally take deepest interest," he told President Kennedy...
...race issue by drawing two Dixie rednecks armed with baseball bats and speculatively eying a Negro just out of the picture. "Let that one go," says one. "He says he don't wanna be mah equal." He treats the space race between Russia and the U.S. with barbell scorn: a monkey up a tree demands of its space-suited companion back from a quick zip through the firmament, "Where the hell have you been?" Ranging across the world for targets, he aims at many, misses few. Mauldin's Khrushchev stands in the U.N., a squat, solitary and ridiculous...