Word: sneer
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Wilson places so low in the academic hierarchy that it seems to have been created solely to give professors of business administration something to sneer...
...Sneer at the Boss. Armed with the victory of his Christian Social Union in Bavaria's state elections, Strauss strutted back to Bonn from Munich and faced the Chancellor with an air of arrogant defiance. All the trouble, he told a party meeting, stemmed from a "lack of leadership'' in der Alte's coalition...
Although he felt the pull to Wagner and made ritualistic pilgrimages to Bayreuth, Debussy could not accept ever Wagner without a sneer. Commenting on the characters in Parsifal, he called Amfortas "that melancholy knight of the Grail, who whines like a shopgirl and whimpers like a baby." Yet traces of the Wagnerian influence remained. "But that's the whole of Parsifal,'' muttered Richard Strauss after hearing a particular passage from Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande...
Greenberg dutifully reported the derisive sneer of "carpetbagger" that Nixon directed at President Kennedy's invasion of California last March. When Nixon disavowed his own words, Greenberg pinned them down in a dispassionate story observing that the candidate had used the epithet not only once, but three times...
...manufacturers. Korvette's calls them "compara-bles"; they include such items as Kayser-Roth "Nolde" nylons at $2.55 for three pairs, v. $4.05 for Kayser's better known "Kayser" hose, and Kentshire sheets by Pacific at $2.57 apiece, v. $3.49 for regular Pacific sheets. Though his competitors sneer that some of Ferkauf's "comparables" look more like sacks than Saks, he does offer many a genuine bargain. Samples: Italian hand-knit men's sweaters for $8.99, Dacron and wool men's summer suits for $25.48, French alligator handbags...