Word: sneered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...class embarrassment can still drive a dated Angry Young Man to organize ten years of his life so that he may debauch the daughters of the neighboring lord of the manor in their silk-sheeted beds, wipe out the son's inheritance at roulette and, with a nasty sneer, take over the manor himself...
...wouldn't sneer at Good Friday, Ash Monday, and Passover, Mr. Dunlop. You may not know this, but many fine Catholics voted for the President, and Sammy Davis Jr. is Jewish. Did you know that, Dunlop...
...idea of a Cambridge idyll this weekend. Pleasure-as usual requires a certain peace of mind, and with the United States maiming Indochina to camouflage the open lie of Vietnamization, I find peace of mind hard to come by, No matter how much many of us have come to sneer at the value of anti-war protest in the past two years, I find it impossible to sit around passively while Nixon throttles this war up to a bloody new pitch. The memory of those dreary marches in the past that tottered between the inanity of Pepsi Generation...
Coach Don Gambril, whose Long Beach squads placed high in past Nationals, won't be fighting for the team title this year, but it is hard to imagine him remaining in the shadows for very long. TV commentators, who sneer at the name of Harvard in national competition, may find the Crimson in the national spotlight--perhaps as soon as next year...
...Irish mystics cut adrift in the Atlantic," in the colorful phrase of Novelist Paul West-and his picture adorned the poorest living rooms in tiny fishing ports with names like Blow-me-down and Come-by-Chance. Newfoundland admired Joey simply for being his outrageous self: he would sneer at the Tories for being the "waffle-iron salesmen" of the merchant classes, and once, at a political rally, he took off his shoes and wiggled h;s toes to prove that "I don't have hooves and horns...