Word: scorns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...found it easy to steer a middle course between East and West. His job has not been made easier by the activities of his own Vice President, Oginga Odinga, who admits that "Communism is like food to me" and has been trav eling through the countryside heaping Red-tinged scorn on Kenyatta's ties with the West...
...arteriosclerosis, and we have compared the cholesterol levels of these patients with those of normal, healthy people," he says. "We can find no consistent, significant relation between the cholesterol levels and the extent and severity of the disease." The effects of stress the pragmatic surgeon dismisses with characteristic scorn: "Man was made to work, and work hard. I don't think it ever hurt anyone...
...lines fall where they may. Actress Baker behaves in a manner befitting a missionary's daughter who aspires to become a sex symbol, but in movies as forced, synthetic and flaccid as Mister Moses, one false image more or less need not be held up to undue scorn...
...McGeorge Bundy's churlish reply deserves high marks, if he wants them, for its chilliness and scorn. However, these are not qualities that I, at least, greatly admire in a public official so fatefully close to the President of the U.S. They are signs not of intellectual incisiveness or of moral rigor but only of bureaucratic self-righteousness and too-prolonged insulation from the ever-growing anxieties that Mr. Bundy's ex-colleagues in universities everywhere feel toward the foreign policies that he has helped to shape in recent years. His mind is more rapid than accurate, more...
...letter in this week's issue of time magazine, Aiken decried the chilliness and scorn" of a letter written by Bundy--and printed in Time (May 7) in which he rejected the invitation 127 faculty members to come to Washington University and answer their questions about Vietnam...