Word: scorns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Haiti for nearly two years. The end result, The Rainy Season, is a portrait of post- Duvalier Haiti that verges on the Didionesque. Which is to say, it has sharply observed accounts of such local color as voodoo and zombis, and a tone of cool detachment mixed with scorn for the social wreckage spawned by even well-intentioned American meddling. Yet at its narrative best The Rainy Season is the kind of world-class reportage that deserves honor as history's first draft...
...cornerstone of Ronald Reagan's campaign for the White House was an attack on Government waste, fraud and abuse. Singled out for special scorn were "giveaway" programs for the poor. Now, as Congress delves into a spreading scandal at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the hypocrisy of Reagan's rhetoric has been brought into sharp relief. During his Administration, a massive giveaway did take place, but to the greedy, not the needy. HUD, whose prime mission is to provide shelter for low-income citizens, instead became a gold mine for Republican insiders, ambitious developers and powerful Washington consultants...
...Carlton Young, chief editor of the 1966 and 1989 hymnals, confesses that the previous edition was too "elitist." Opting for populism this time, the editors downplayed King James verbiage and included songs that highbrows scorn but the people love (for instance, the treacly In the Garden). The wide- ranging collection features such songs as the civil rights anthem We Shall + Overcome, Duke Ellington's Come Sunday and gospel singer Bill Gaither's He Touched...
Despite the overwhelming House margin, members were clearly torn between their desire for a pay raise and the public scorn heaped upon them for considering the increase...
CHICAGO--The fear of freezing was nothing more than an object of scorn for Joe Montana, Jerry Rice and their San Francisco teammates yesterday...