Word: sneer
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...nchen-Gladbach last week a military government's court for civilians sentenced two boys (16 and 17) to death for spying. Both the sentence and the scrupulously just proceedings impressed the Germans. Leniency in other cases, when death was promised by the regulations but not enforced, made Germans sneer behind their hands. In occupied Germany, among a people who would surely compare U.S., British and Russian performances, the quality of mercy had its dangers...
...Germans, who comprise 85% of the P.W. population,* think they are guarded excessively, and the more arrogant among them sneer: "That shows how they fear us." Some 1,300 have escaped from camps, but none "permanently" (for more than a year...
...quite calm: "Read carefully, read very carefully, Mrs. Roosevelt's statement might pass muster. Possibly it's correct that we should encourage 'really good families,' rather than 'indiscriminate large families' . . . gauged solely from an economic viewpoint. [But] it is unpleasant to meet a sneer, however oblique and qualified, at 'families of twelve children.' And . . . it's irritating to meet a text so involved that it has to be read and re-read...
...Combattant (Journal Officiel de I'Association des Anciens Combattants et Victimes de la Guerre du Maroc) published in Casablanca-and even in papers like the Berliner Borzen-Zeitung, Ncues Wiener Tagblatt and the Rheinische-Westfalische Zeitung (which pick up the news from TIME's Stockholm Edition and sneer at the truth...
...Herbert Moy, a U.S.-born Chinese, is the voice of the German station in Shanghai. His news is delivered with a steady sneer. The station puts on an afternoon-full of classical recordings, principally by the Boston, Minneapolis and Philadelphia orchestras...