Word: smugness
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...yesterday's City Council order driving the buses out of Harvard Square is any barometer, this season is a bad one for machines. For years, people have been looking on with smug approval as their mechanical creations grew bigger and, if not better, at least more complicated. Now, however, the machines have been getting smug themselves, and quite a few people have been growing just a little alarmed. William Faulkner, for instance, last week published a letter in the Times decrying the way airplanes now fly, and fall, themselves. The Council order shows the tide of reaction has reached even...
...Congress leaders ratified Nehru's choice, which makes Dhebar's election a certainty. But they were still a little apprehensive. They know that Nehru believes the party to be flabby, smug and out of contact with the masses-and that Nehru is counting on U. N. Dhebar, the austere militant, to rectify these conditions. The party leaders know that they themselves are flabby and smug, but they want to stay that...
...Whatever the smug intellectuals think about Billy Graham it is clearly a fact that he indeed is inspired by and sustained...
...many students who had or could have earned well over $600 with summer and term earnings the smug tale was all too often a very familiar story. As likely as not it was their story too. They had faced the frustration--in spite of the forced vacation--of giving up several hundred dollars that could have made their college year more enjoyable--just to save their parents a tax exemption. They too had occasionally wondered why parents had to be one of the hardships of a minor's life. But the ruse went unabashedly...
...Lebanese Ambassador to the U.S. and head of one of the assembly discussion groups, called for the World Council to produce "a ringing, positive message-one of reality, of truth and of hope." Communism, he continued, "exposes the inadequacy, if not indeed the bankruptcy, of the Western-imperialistic and smug-Christian approach of the past ... At the present degree of spiritual impotence ... it is only a matter of time before the whole of Asia and Africa, and maybe even Europe, will be engulfed by Communism...