Word: sneered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...real scene-stealers are the supporting characters. Dan Strickland as the Duke is a walking cartoon of the stereotypical stiff-upper-lip Englishman (there a even a number called "Stiff Upper Lip"): he slinks around the stage in an unhealthy slouch, his face frozen in a mournful sneer. Another cartoon character with a face to match is Jansen, a Revenue Officers (Timothy Wallace), who rushes in and out pursuing those clever bootleggers, the scowl across his bulldog J. Edgar Hoover jowls growing deeper each time he's outwitted...
Divided Chores. Cynics may sneer that a platonic relationship between young men and women is impossible. Yet Valentine and Cole are just two of an increasing number of people who insist that coed, companionable but nonsexual apartment sharing is possible and practical. Reports Joel Kaplan, who runs Washington's The Roommate Exchange: "For people between 21 and 35, there are very few now who won't at least consider a coed-living situation...
Those who study hatred are blotted out; Israel continues, from Father Abraham to this [March 10] issue of TIME. A generation will come when our descendants will look on these dread portraits of King Faisal as Shelley looked on the rubble of Ozymandias' sneer...
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger weighed in by raising the old specter of falling dominoes. "I know it is fashion able to sneer at the words domino theory," Kissinger told a Washington news conference, referring to the old Eisenhower-era philosophy that if one nation fell to Communism, it would cause other countries around it to fall also. The Secretary went on to argue that "we cannot escape this problem by assuming the responsibility of condemning those who have dealt with us to a certain destruction." The Administration is concerned not only with dominoes falling in Southeast Asia but also...
...other explanation for this stranger lack than to submit that there to one target with science in its tide which is as safe to lob bricks as at the home of only low on town science fiction. Put it down and the lightning does not strike. To sneer at it is perhaps to express a suspicion that perhaps science has become too much the master, that perhaps science will become aware that dissent exists...