Word: sneered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said he, had a right "to seek some relief [from] our allies" in Indo-China. There were "grave difficulties" to be faced in foreign trade. October had set new production records, and November had topped October. From the left a Communist rose to heckle Pinay, and made a tactless sneer at Pinay's leather business...
Wake for the Dead. Conservative civil servants learned to fear Templer's thin-lipped, tigerish sneer. Asians loved it when he looked a prevaricating Asian politician in the eye and said: "You're a stinker." Everywhere he went he was appalled by the indolent attitude of the Europeans. He told a Rotarian audience: "You see today how the Communists work . . . They seldom go to the races. They seldom go to dinner parties or cocktail parties. And they do not play golf." Even as he spoke, the Perak Derby was being run on the track at Ipoh, tin-mining...
...about three-quarters of the country's people) is the ancient game of Hornuss (from the German for "hornet"). Hornuss is a rough, hard-hitting mixture of golf, baseball, cricket and guided-missile warfare. Peaceful farmers summon up martial blood when they get playing Hornuss; Swiss city folks sneer affectionately at the game as "stratosphere pingpong," but they turn out in droves to watch it played...
...epithet plucked from a newspaper caption over a picture of ill-dressed demonstrators: "The shirtless ones who roam our streets." The Peróns caught up the sneer as a weapon...
...already won the decision, and is just waiting until it is made official. Fighting Bob became magnanimous Bob; he was quicker to smile, less inclined to the harsh word, and seemed to feel a little sorry for his Republican opponents. Now & then a slight sneer flitted across his face, but on the whole he was a much more appealing television personality than the Fighting Bob of the last six months, who often looked ready to eat the microphone...