Word: scornfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thereafter he brushed off Hopkins as "a glorified copy boy," pitched his scorn at the Sun's twelve editorial writers. They became, to their surprise, a major campaign issue as "the nine old men in the ivory tower" and "the cowardly nine residing in the dark corners of Baltimore county"-meaning the suburbs. At precinct meetings and campaign crab feasts, beaming Tommy D'Alesandro poked fun at the Sun. "No newspaper,'' cried he, "will boss...
...With thoroughgoing scorn for Kansas City's big-league pretensions, the Chicago White Sox slammed so many home runs (seven), and scored so often (29 times) as they whipped the Athletics, 29-6, that they tied the modern major-league scoring record for one team in one game. Co-record holders: the Boston Red Sox, who humiliated the St. Louis Browns...
...Talking Boards. Another learned German attacked another mystery, the strange written language of Easter Island, in the South Pacific. The island's most famous feature is its great stone statues, of unknown workmanship, that stare out to sea with thin-lipped scorn, but scholars are even more fascinated by the "talking boards": pieces of wood carved with close-packed characters...
...cheering sounded, either for Attlee as he sat down or for Bevan as he rose to reply. There were few men in the room who did not remember 1931, when the Labor Party under Ramsay MacDonald splintered hopelessly and left Labor in the wilderness for a decade. With Celtic scorn, Nye Bevan sought to show that other Socialists than he had insulted Clement Attlee. Manny Shinwell, for instance, said Bevan. And Dick Stokes, the burly M.P. from Ipswich; only last year he had sneered at Attlee's leadership by quoting what he said was a Chinese proverb: "A fish...
...Soviet government in 1933, the military leaders, realizing Russia's comparative weakness and its need for aid against possible aggressors, were the most pro-American element of the Kremlin hierarchy. More interested in logistics than Leninism, the professional soldiers provided few of the doctrinaire revolutionaries who had nothing but scorn for the West...