Word: smugness
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...suppose TIME thinks it bright and sophisticated to write up a crime story in the smug manner . . . of the life and death of Barbara Graham [June 13] . . . If we (society in general) refuse to interest ourselves in the lives of maltreated and disturbed children, we must expect to pay the penalty which these children's adult years bring upon us in the form of robberies, murders, etc. Execution of the offender only gets us off the hook. Our penalty in Barbara Graham's case ought to have been our payment of her Aboard and keep in a prison...
...Toronto last week, as Canadian medicos got together with their British cousins at the joint meetings of British, Canadian and Ontario medical associations, they found it hard not to be smug. (The British are not using the Salk vaccine at all, except in a limited test.) Admitted the Canadians gallantly: "With a larger number of children vaccinated, we might have got into trouble, too." Said Dr. Andrew J. Rhodes, one of Canada's top polio experts: "A safe and effective vaccine can be produced. [But] a great deal of work has yet to be done...
...kept moving, and he never let his hand get far from his rifle. Concluded Nichols: "Davy Crockett is the epitome of a man who can lick any problem with his wits and his own two hands." In the spring of 1955 the U.S. people were confident, but far from smug. Eisenhower and Dulles had not ended the cold war, nor had the people been lulled into thinking it was ended. What had ceased was the chronic crisis, the futile nail-biting, the frustrated tensions that previously surfaced in such phenomena as the pro-and-con McCarthy yawpings...
...work as "a vehicle for Jacobite and High-flying tenets" and Johnson for "crouding" it with such "monstrous words" as "adespotick, amnicolist, androtomy." "Nearly one-third of this Dictionary," added Philologist John Home Tooke, "is as much the language of the Hottentots as of the English." Years later the smug and able Noah Webster observed that confidence in the Dictionary "is the greatest injury to philology that now exists...
...resume of a year's events is predestined to be pretentious. And when this compendium is made at an institution with a three-hundred year history, the result turns out self-centered and smug as well. It is easy to see, then, why the prospect of reviewing the year has always held irresistible attraction for CRIMSON senior editors as they prepare to retire from the journalistic hurly-burly...