Word: scorning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kennedy campaign promises-"I am not satisfied to be second to outer space," "I am not satisfied to have the deadly hand of Communism extend to our former good neighbor in Cuba"-and found those promises "very empty." Detroit's Republican-leaning Free Press pasted the President with scorn: "President Kennedy by his words and actions conveys the idea that he sits with his finger resting against the panic button and doesn't quite know how to draw it away." And both here and abroad, the cartoonists stung him with their sharpest barbs (see cuts...
From Japan to Britain, radios had reported the gathering tension at Canaveral, the blast-off and the brief, successful flight. Congratulatory messages poured in from the world's capitals. Few foreigners shared the cool scorn of the Parisian who growled: "The Americans are crazy, and the Russians are crazy, too." Nor did anyone west of the Iron Curtain echo Radio Prague, which called Shepard's flight "scientifically primitive." In Europe and the U.S. most space spectators agreed with Leonard J. Carter, secretary of the British Interplanetary Society: "The Americans had the right way of doing it. Unlike...
...problem that President Josip Broz Tito worries out loud about from time to time is the widespread cynicism of Yugoslav youth toward his own particular brand of Communism."They do not think enough that their duty is to give to the community what they can," says Tito. Most students scorn Tito's voluntary "youth brigades" for road building, and they duck army service as long as possible by taking an average of seven years to complete a five-year university course. Many drift into the gangs of delinquents who make a living scalping sports tickets or stealing parts from...
...through all of the essentially unrelated scenes they stumble upon. All of the cast worked without pay. At Morgan's request they also signed a Model Release form waiving their rights to sue the producer for anything in the movie which might subject them to "ridicule, scandal, reproach, scorn and indignity...
Legitimate news photographers scorn the paparazzi as streetwalkers of Roman journalism. But like streetwalkers, they cling to their place in society. Via Veneto cafes have found they are good for business. With paparazzi lurking just off the premises, cash customers mass to watch for fireworks...