Word: scorns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when the Kaiser fell. Through the sad days of the Weimar Republic and the ugly early days of Naziism he was respected as veteran mayor of Cologne and a wily politician, until he was forced out of office by the Nazis, for whom he showed nothing but flinty scorn. Had he died at 70, he would not have rated a paragraph in most U.S. newspapers...
When I was a lad in college, all my wise compatriots were busy writing learned essays on world matters, communism, literature and the arts. Some were busily joining the Communist party... A few of us earned the finger of scorn from our betters since we devoted ourselves mainly to the pursuit of happiness, coeds and corn whisky and read only the sports pages. Of that group, most of them grew up to succeed. The long-skulls who wrote the learned essays for the campus paper wound up as minor clerks and press agents...
...This man is very cunning!" cried Prosecutor Azemudeh. Mossadegh ruminatively lifted his head and, in the voice of an ailing Guernsey, commented: "Moooooooo!" Azemudeh recited a vast series of crimes committed by Mossadegh against the nation. Said Mossadegh: "Mooooo!" Azemudeh poured scorn and shame on the man who had defied the Shah of Iran. Mossadegh replied: "Moooooo...
While more than half the people in the survey scorn the drunk--particularly the inebriated female, three-fifths of the undergraduates would permit drinking in moderation. And over "40 percent of the students accept the quiet abstainer but express rejection of the militant...
...Marquand Sr.'s quiet grudge or Marquand Jr.'s compulsion to renounce loudly the world of wealth and position. Mr. Flood's even perspective, whether it be laid to ignorance of any other setting, or correctly, I think, to his maturity, is refreshing in its calm acceptance, rather than scorn or worship, of the club at Harvard, debut rituals, codes of tradition. In the social frame which the novel gives its characters, there is far more depth than in the characters themselves...