Word: sneer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many Italian businessmen consider Bassetti a Red, sneer at his plans for Milanese redevelopment as too elaborate and socialistic. Bassetti works a 16-hour day seven days a week at his textile business and council duties, and disregards his critics. "I believe I represent something new in Italy," he says. "A businessman with a social conscience who's willing to work in public life to solve the problems of our time...
...Chinese still sneer at the Russians as "Big Noses" and consider them as alien as other Westerners. Moreover, the population pressure along the Sino-Soviet border is a constant menace to Moscow; by 1980 there will be 1 billion Chinese. When a British visitor suggested to Khrushchev not long ago that the Chinese masses would eventually explode north into Siberia or south to Australia, Nikita replied grimly: "I'm in favor of Australia...
Other Negro leaders were on hand too. Jeremiah X, Georgia torchbearer for the militant Black Muslim organization, paused in a recruiting drive generated by the Birmingham riots to sneer at King's passive approach to integration: "King's movement is just a form of sophisticated begging. We are not a violent movement, but we do not believe in getting our heads kicked in, either. Black people have been dying for nothing all these years-now it's time for them to die for something." Jackie Robinson and Floyd Patterson were in town for a day. They made...
Arab and African leaders generally sneer at Hassan II of Morocco because he is a King in an era of crumbled monarchies. Yet such "progressives" as Egypt's Nasser and Ghana's Nkrumah would not dare to let their own people indulge in the measure of press freedom and political democracy that Hassan allowed in last week's national elections...
...movement within the U.S. Negro community took full recruiting advantage of the Birmingham riots. The Black Muslims do not seek integration; they want total separation of the races, with Negroes not only independent but, if possible, superior. Now Malcolm X, top Eastern torchbearer for the militant movement, could only sneer at Martin Luther King's gospel of nonviolence. Said he: "The lesson of Birmingham is that the Negroes have lost their fear of the white man's reprisals and will react with violence, if provoked. This could happen anywhere in the country today." Last week, at the crest...