Word: scorns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...describing the bungled attempts by the NSC staff, using private citizens in amateurish bargaining to develop a dialogue with Iran and get American hostages released by selling arms to that outlaw nation, Shultz made no effort to conceal his scorn. "Our guys . . . got taken to the cleaners," he said. ". . . It's pathetic that anybody would agree to anything like that. It's so lopsided. It's crazy." At one point he was shown a chart found in North's office safe, outlining a way of using arms-sales profits to set up a privately controlled fund for covert operations. Disdainfully...
...selling weapons to Iran, the U.S. left itself open to the strike against the Stark. It is easy to see why Iraq attacked the frigate. American weapons are killing Iraqis. Instead of promoting peace, our Government sows war and destruction, and for this we Americans suffer the hatred and scorn of the rest of the world...
Respectable American papers scorn the sleazy Fleet Street practice of entrapping prominent Brits in love nests. So when the respectable Miami Herald tailed Hart and his friend, it angered Columnist A.M. Rosenthal, until recently the top editor of the New York Times. He indignantly wrote, "I did not become a newspaperman to hide outside a politician's house trying to find out whether he was in bed with somebody." When it comes to scandal, the New York Times is up above the world so high. Its readers must have been puzzled to read that Hart's reputation as a womanizer...
...majority since the beginning of his own education. As a precocious 15-year-old who often told chums, "Be quiet; I'm thinking," he discovered that John Stuart Mill had read Plato by age ten. Forthwith Adler devoured Plato's works. With equal speed and assurance, he acquired his scorn for educational conventions, not to mention conventional educators. Then, as now, he found no use for grades: "What do they measure? The ability of some children to bone up for examinations." Given the power, he would abolish all marks in favor of general ratings (honors, pass, fair) arrived...
...Southern Africa Solidarity Committee this week invited Mr. Kent-Brown to participate in debate with a speaker from the African National Congress, a leader of the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa, during his visit here. Mr. Kent-Brown's hosts, the members of the Conservative Club, publicly heaped scorn upon this offer and refused to arrange for the debate to take place...