Word: scorns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...these failures deserve compassion rather than scorn. The men who involved us in Viet Nam ventured American prestige beyond the strategic merits of the local issue and risked infinitely more than they intended. Yet their purposes were far from ignoble; later events confirmed the validity of the view that American impotence in the face of aggression could have catastrophic consequences. The global turmoil that followed the final collapse in Indochina owed not a little to loss of confidence in the stabilizing role of America; Soviet adventurism accelerated with American weakness. And the horrible fate of the peoples of Indochina since...
...their references to the Libyan leader, U.S. officials seemed to strike a ritualistic note of scorn and horror: Muammar Gaddafi* is not only a menace and a promoter of terrorism but a lunatic as well. Egyptian President Anwar Sadat used to call him "that crazy boy," but the consensus of most Middle East analysts is that Gaddafi is as crazy as a fox. To be sure, he is an erratic and irascible revolutionary, convinced of his own genius and wholly committed to spreading his own political gospel, an eccentric mix of Islam and socialism that is summed...
When they first hit the courts six years ago. oversized tennis racquets immediately drew the scorn and skepticism of any self respecting tennis player. But the innovation has come to corner the racquet industry as it siphons off 40 per cent of the total market sales. Promising and apparently serving up unreal results, its geriatric stigma has now disappeared...
...consume an entire day and involve almost as much hassle and humbling as being drummed out of the regiment. Endless hours must be spent in lines leading to sometimes abusive traffic-court clerks who treat parking offenders as if they were homicide suspects. Policemen and judges often heap scorn on a miscreant. Tow-truck operators can be just as surly...
...regard 'em with scorn...