Word: scornfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Everyone, that is, except his first wife Harlene, 28. She fumes. Last week, charging that since their divorce in 1962 Allen "has continued to hold me up to scorn and ridicule," she-and her lawyer-made threatening noises about filing a defamation-of-character suit...
...week, Tito warned Serbian and Croatian intellectuals that he would tolerate nothing that might lead to a renewal of ancient enmities between the regions. Himself a Croatian, he booted the president of the Croatian Writers Union out of the Communist Party for "lack of vigilance and irresponsibility." Pouring scorn on the intellectuals as people who do not care about labor and productivity, he asked a group of workers: "Do you pay attention only to commas and full stops, or is there something else in which you are interested?" Actually, Tito is about the only Yugoslav who speaks anything approaching...
...Scorn Gone. The most remarkable aspect of the Luther renaissance is that it is enthusiastically endorsed by Roman Catholics, whose postconciliar hymnbooks are patently incomplete if they do not include his martial hymn, A Mighty Fortress Is Our God. Less than a generation ago, Luther was scorned-even by Catholic scholars who should have known better-as a sensuous, psychotic, fallen monk, the deliberate destroyer of Christendom. Luther, wrote Jesuit Hartmann Grisar in his 1926 biography, suffered from "an extraordinary capacity for self-delusion...
...charmers and blind violinists. Among the paper's reporters and editors, Luce was considered something of a dandy and a dilettante. Dressed to meet his girl, he ran into the managing editor in the elevator one day. The M.E. looked him over head to toe, then said with withering scorn: "Ah, Luce, a journalist, I see." Luce later said: "I have sometimes said to myself that the one thing I was determined to do was to make 'journalist' a good word. And today it, is a good word...
With gentler scorn, Judge Weinfeld pointed out that the Government was not required to prove that the espionage agents had "achieved perfection" by stealing all specifications for mass-scale bomb production. Such standards were "irrelevant" to the case, Weinfeld said. Greenglass was merely out "to get what he could"; his success was proved by the scientists' own affidavits, which described his version of the bomb as "correct in its most vague and general aspects." In 1945 that was plenty...