Word: scorns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...irresistible. Although elections are not due until March 5, there were 140 registered parties in Greece last week. There was the National Salvation Party, whose emblem was a skyscraper apartment house with St. Constantine and his mother, St. Helena, peeping out of the top window. Its platform: "Death and scorn to the wicked and incompetent who have brought Hellas to this plight." There was the Greek Orthodox Party, whose leader exhibited his own photograph in white pleated national dress, with the motto, "Love is the mother of happiness." Among the rest were the National Rebirth Party, the Motorists' Party...
Early in the film, as Maigret suffers Radek's taunts at the Eiffel Tower restaurant, you get the upsetting impression that Radek would like to do nothing better than hurl himself from the tower to show his scorn for humanity. Despite numerous old Hollywood traditions, Radek does not jump, thereby supplying one of the film's pleasantest surprises. He comes breathlessly close, however, in a series of amazing shots that will make you wonder whether or not Tone and Meredith actually did clamber all over this maze of girders. How Maigret bloodlessly outwits Radek proves a vastly satisfying...
Connally's yielding and Acheson's scorn neither relieved nor silenced the Republicans. Ohio's Robert Taft read a 1,500-word statement to the Senate, instead of talking impromptu as he usually does. Said he: "There can be no crossing [by Communists to Formosa] if our Navy makes it clear that ships carrying troops will not be allowed to cross . . . Formosa is a place where a small amount of aid, and at very small cost, can prevent the further spread of Communism ..." New Hampshire's Styles Bridges cried out: "Are we men in Europe...
Only once by name, with passing scorn for "foolish adventures," did Dean Acheson in his Press Club speech mention Formosa. But the word had hissed like a hot coal on ice earlier in the week when he met for five hours with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and for four hours next day with the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and it steamed all week in the speeches of a small but angry group of Republican critics...
...armymen in the Russian zone of occupation, the anti-Communist Viennese have only hatred and fear. For the 10,000 easygoing, sometimes ill-mannered American G.I.s, Viennese have a kind of cultural scorn-and a cultural weakness. Such Yank idioms as "50-50," "yam [i.e., jam] session" and "get a bissel [i.e., a little] in the mood" have crept into the Viennese vernacular. Fruit juices, powdered coffee and Coca-Cola from American PXs are standard in the Viennese way of life. Austrian counterparts of American bobby-soxers are singing such ditties as Kaugummi oder Ich muss den Johnny kiissen...