Word: smugness
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...president of the Society for Minority Rights, stated that by publicizing the incident, the group hoped to accomplish two things first to make those guilty realize the viciousness of their act, second, to make the Harvard community realize that there are bigots in our midst, to destroy the smug 'it-can't-happen-here' attitude...
When your generation feels smug and sly about this "dead wood generation," just remember you raised us-gave us, in large, a half-baked cultural and intellectual background. You sent us off to war ... It is your generation that pays our salaries and keeps us conventional and mediocre; it is your generation that confuses our morals, not us ... However, as you say, we will serve-for you, the generations before you and ones after us-because we really love America and the American idea, and-we have a sense of humor...
...sudden thought possessed him; and he looked in his wallet, worried for a moment. But there they were, hiding behind a dollar bill. "Dartmouth vs. Harvard, "they said on their smug twin faces. "Section 34, Row 11,9 and 10. At 2 p.m. Harvard Stadium...
...excised before it had in any way infected any general or major part of the body politic . . . If in the end some perhaps once-promising and once-worthy political or public career is ended and the bell tolls on it . . . let no one take it as the occasion for smug self-righteousness or partisan satisfaction. It is a matter which affects every political party and every citizen, and every party and citizen suffers...
...case and other revelations made around that time, it did not think that all the accusations about Communism were nonsense. It expected some housecleaning-or at least an official admission that the house had been a bit dirty. Truman stubbornly continued to resist such suggestions. When Acheson made his smug statement on Hiss, he set up the pins for McCarthy...