Word: scorns
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Machismo appeared to be the style of the Argentine leadership. This would mix dangerously with the icy scorn and iron will of Mrs. Thatcher. Even when the determination of the British was pointed out in crystal-clear terms, Galtieri replied, "Why are you telling me this? The British won't fight." In this judgment, I believe, he had the agreement if not the tutelage of Nicanor Costa Méndez, the Foreign Minister, who was reportedly the main opponent of my advice. On a number of occasions after Galtieri had showed some movement in the negotiations, Costa Mendez...
...breaks my heart to read about the plight of immigrants in Europe [Feb. 6]. Asians and Africans have slaved for centuries to build an affluent society. But all these people get in return for their labors is curses and scorn...
...testify on the Lebanese political situation, Republican Congressman William S. Broomfield of Michigan warned, "We are wondering whether or not our policy [in Lebanon] is dramatically changing." Emerging from private briefings by Deputy Secretary of State Kenneth W. Dam on the intended Marine redeployment, Democrats and Republicans alike expressed scorn and consternation. Said a Republican Senator after the meetings: "They don't want to leave Lebanon without some measure of success. That doesn't sound like withdrawal to me. They don't have any intention of leaving." Republican Congressman Trent Lott, the House minority whip, said...
...since World War II, the recent surge in sales may be a response to U.S. military actions in Lebanon and Grenada. The symbolism seems more upbeat than it was in the mid-1960s, when college students opposed to the Viet Nam War wore combat gear largely to express their scorn for the military. Today, says Allen Schreck, national sales manager for Schreck Wholesale Inc. in Chicago, a manufacturer of military clothing, "I think many people wear military clothes because they feel proud of the U.S. and the way it is acting in world affairs...
These academics, once scorned by modernist taste but now almost as rehabilitated as their pupils, gave new American art its pedigree. At one point Gérôme had 90 American students. As an American critic remarked in 1864, "We have not time to invent and study everything anew. The fast-flying 19th century would laugh us to scorn should we attempt it. No one dreams of it in science, ethics or physics. Why then propose it in art?" It may be that even the most "American" of Eakins' paintings-his rowing scenes on the Schuylkill River...