Word: scorns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...them from starting in time were infected with travel fever by the news that others were already on their way. Even such men as Zesen and Rist, who counted each other as enemies, were intent on meeting. Logau's curiosity about the meeting proved even stronger than his scorn for the assembled poets. Their local surroundings were too constricting. No business transaction, however intricate, no love affair, however diverting, could resist the force that drew them together. Moreover, the peace negotiations brought increasing unrest. No one wanted to be by himself...
...preppy students should be ashamed. Their background is not their doing, and preppy fashion might be all they know. On the contrary, we may feel pity that their parents cared so little for them that they ship their sons and daughters off to boarding school; surely we should not scorn them...
...sudden love affair with the shuttle were its $9.9 billion price tag (at a 30% cost overrun), all those loose tiles, the exploding engines, even the last-minute computer failure, to say nothing of the inevitable jokes about America's "space lemon" and "flying brickyard." Could past scorn actually have increased the passion of this new embrace? The shuttle had become a kind of technological Rocky, the bum who perseveres to the end, the underdog who finally wins. Columbia's success, explained Milwaukee Sociologist Wayne Youngquist, "ties in with so many of our cultural themes...
...champion of the insolent and decadent aristocracy that dominates France." He reminded his audience that "the people rose up and assaulted the Bastille" in 1789, sweeping away "the old rotten regime." Then he turned with equal antagonism on the other main candidate, Socialist Leader François Mitterrand. Heaping scorn on his former partner in the now defunct coalition of leftist parties, Marchais disparaged Mitterrand's socialist and working-class credentials. "He passes his time soliciting the confidence of the business community," said Marchais. He went on to urge his troops to turn out in record numbers...
...after he appears at her parents' house. Edward is running away from his father, who wants him to marry a certain Lady Dorothea; he tells the adoring Laura how he refused: "Lady Dorothea is lovely and Engaging; I prefer no woman to her; but know Sir, that I scorn to marry her in compliance with your wishes. No! Never shall it be said that I obliged my Father." Edward and Laura set off to pamper their emotions and sponge off relatives and friends: "The affectionate entreaties of Augustus and Sophia that we would for ever consider their House...