Word: scornfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Given the average Harvard student's apparently natural disdain for business, and the predilection of HSA types for the style and affectations of businessmen, the scorn HSA receives is understandable. A look at the HSA offices or a few minutes' chat with some of its officers is enough to indicate that mnay HSA executives do emulate and cultivate the style of their Madison Avenue or Congress Street big brothers...
...Scorn not the sonnet," wrote William Wordsworth, who had composed hundreds of those 14-line verses, some memorable, but most of them, notably his 47 sonnets on the ecclesiastical history of England, long forgotten...
...both teachers and students. Children are compelled to work for "petty and contemptible rewards-gold stars, or papers marked 100, or A's on report cards -for the ignoble satisfaction of feeling that they are better than someone else." They fear a teacher's displeasure, the scorn of their peers, the pain of being wrong. "Even in the kindest and gentlest of schools, children are afraid, many of them a great deal of the time, some of them almost all the time...
...bill's author, Florida's Republican Representative William Cramer, Wilkins said with scorn: "He and his colleagues have great wrestlings with their souls and wordy parliamentary debates in considering, trimming, altering or rejecting a civil rights bill. But they have no trouble lining out punishment for alleged rioting. When they refuse to enact legislation such as the civil rights bill of 1967, they are creating the atmosphere in which an outbreak of violence can occur...
...path to joining Europe - or even to cooperation in joint projects - is not smooth," sighed Britain's Guardian. It was the understatement of the week. With lofty hauteur, Charles de Gaulle has heaped scorn on every effort by Britain to nudge its way into the Common Market. It is even getting difficult for the French and the British to stay partners in the ambitious set of joint aircraft-production schemes so loudly heralded over the past couple of years...