Word: scorns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Herman the Hormone. As a careerist who rose from the lowest echelons of the service to become U.S. Ambassador to Mali, Senegal, and finally Mauritania, Villard reserves his greatest scorn for the political appointee, the "manufacturer of kazoos from Peoria," who gets the choicest embassies for the fattest campaign contributions...
...Scorn for Suasion. In a rare show of unity-and with no other recourse-Washington, London and Moscow all threw their weight behind a United Nations effort to arrange a ceasefire. With a unanimous Security Council vote behind him, U.N. Secretary-General U Thant hurried off to the Indian sub continent, where his homilies were greeted with outright scorn. After two days of fruitless meetings in Rawalpindi, a Pakistani official said: "Thant's visit is like a Boy Scout blowing his whistle, tweet, tweet, and telling us to be good. We have been good long enough...
Cajun Cassius. Yet for nearly an hour last week as he roared and wriggled his scorn for the Administration's 1966-67 foreign aid bill in the House, Passman, 65, seemed only a shadow of the man whom his foes have feared and derided as a Cajun Cassius. As he said himself: "I have had my wings cropped...
...surrendering any sovereignty to the Common Market, he in effect closed the door to the sort of Common Market that Europe has envisioned-one that would have its own decision-making body, its own treasury and its own supranational laws. Deftly adding insult to injury, De Gaulle heaped scorn on the Eurocrats, the architects of the Common Market, by referring to them as "a technocratic, stateless and irresponsible clique," and to their plans as "a project removed from reality." It is "conceivable and it is desirable," said De Gaulle, that the Common Market get rolling again-but he predicted...
...dumping ground for cashiered generals. As Sir William Robertson, the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, saw it, the Macedonian expedition "had no military justification." Rent by bitter rivalries among the national contingents, the Salonika army for months did little except dig trenches, winning Georges Clemenceau's scorn as "the gardeners of Salonika." Commander in Chief Maurice Sarrail of France was a political general who spent far more time intriguing to unseat Greece's King Constantine (who was married to the Kaiser's sister) than in mounting offensives. Sarrail did have one triumph: by wheeling...