Word: scornfully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...domestic area, Brezhnev pointedly praised the KGB (secret police) and called for greater vigilance against "bourgeois influences." He derided intellectuals who distort Soviet reality. All they deserve, he said, is "general scorn." Without naming names, Brezhnev upbraided Nobel Prizewinning Novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn for dwelling on "problems that have been irreversibly relegated to the past." Then, in an evenhanded manner, Brezhnev rapped ultraconservative Soviet writers who "attempt to whitewash the past" by praising Joseph Stalin. Among his other points...
...Economics in the United States for 15 years before his return to Greece in 1960. Yet his increasingly independent stand on the NATO alliance and the U.S. infiltration of the Greek secret police-combined with his immense popularity-made him the principal target of right-wing agitation and scorn. The coup of April 21 tells the rest of the story...
Fast Eddie meets Tricia. From adolescent scorn to the American Dream. They meet at the Chapin School Christmas dance in 1963, and after a short seven-year courtship the romance has bloomed. She visits him for a weekend every fortnight at Harvard. (His apartment is conveniently across the street from the Holiday Inn where Tricia can rest, safe from temptation...
...ability to maintain our own humanity in doing so. After all, our crusade-albeit its exact nature was a matter of contention-we all defined, however variously, as a holy one. And yet the crowded air of Sanders smothered one in the ugliness of hostility and scorn. The steam that gushed from a punctured radiator seemed only a metaphor for the little patience that prevailed...
...dairy, a hog farm. Inmates earn up to $24 a month turning out toilet paper and handsome furniture for the judges and prosecutors who got them the jobs. But for 180 rebels confined in Soledad's "X" and "O" wings, there is no play or work. Because they scorn prison rules, they are locked up tighter than lions...