Word: sneered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...millions of Americans who deplore and despise Senator McCarthy want to understand the millions who admire McCarthy, "despite his methods," they could ponder McCarthy's record of the week. The bully-boy manners, the sneer and the smear are conspicuous in the record. But alongside such trademarks of the McCarthy operation there was also the record of a week packed with investigative achievement. McCarthy scored heavily, and some of his points were of real and current importance. Among them...
...Peasants. Khrushchev's work had brought him face to face with one immutable fact that plagues Communism the world over: that Marxism is and was the creed of a city dweller, with little place in it for the land-loving peasantry. In their writings, Communist thinkers (e.g., Engels) sneer at the muzhiks as "a class of barbarians" with an "anti-collective skull," condemned by history to inexorable extinction. Communist bosses (e.g., Stalin) have consistently endeavored to make the prophecy come true, and the result is a never-ending war between the muzhik and the commissar...
...refer to the undersigned or any other labor executive as a union boss," wrote Union Boss Lewis, "is a sneer. In logic, it would be equally sound to refer to a public official as the boss of the citizens ... To refer to the public trustee of the United Mine Workers of America Welfare and Retirement Fund [onetime Coal Mine Operator Josephine Roche], of eminent record, as a stooge of the undersigned is a contemptible insult, derogatory to the writer of your editorial. It exemplifies the innate philosophy of the Bourbon mind and the effeminate snobbishness of inbred aristocracy...
...more vociferous subway alumnus who might ordinarily be counted on to help fill the Stadium just aren't interested in intersectional contests like today's game. They want to see the varsity play some local school, such as Boston University or Boston College. Two months ago only a derisive sneer and a clenched fist would have met that suggestion, for both had been playing big name football teams. But while B.U., now the owner of Braves Field, seems apparently headed for stronger opponents and bigger gates, B.C. has just announced a policy of de-emphasis...
...every role she plays, and from it moves out into comedy or tragedy with equal ease and grace. As wife No. 2, Yvonne de Carlo does the job of her life. For the first time a director (Anthony Kimmins) has understood that her exuberant wiggles, suggestive ogles and painted sneer of sexual overconfidence need only the least exaggeration to change a glamour girl into a raucously earthy figure...