Word: scorning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...force but it's damn close to it. If the kids don't buy a bond out of their $50 they are looked down upon with scorn. Now, how in the hell can you expect these kids to send any money to their wives and children, aside from the monthly allotment, if their last dime has to go towards a bond...
...located his first well at West Edmond with the aid of his partner's "doodlebug," the wildcatter's equivalent of a divining rod, which geologists scorn as witchcraft...
Morning came and the Commando-men splashed ashore, each carrying his 60-lb. pack and wearing a green beret (they scorn the steel helmet as a needlessly heavy encumbrance). They skirted beach mines, passed pillboxes, dodged gunfire, and started the long, tough fight inland...
...left behind to preside at his country's worst military fiasco, waits for death or liberation on Formosa, according to Jap reports. Three vague, hand-printed messages have come from him. That is all. Whether he is well or ill treated is not known. The Japanese look with scorn on the defeated...
...wish there were words adequate enough to explain the bitterness, the scorn, the unrest and the lack of faith most of us have for so many things at home...