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Word: sneering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Miss Roman is more convincing than her colleague, but she spends too much time convincing the audience that she's a spoiled lot, a point which is evident from the very first sneer...

Author: By Eric Amphitheatrop, | Title: Invitation | 3/7/1952 | See Source »

...Consecrated. Republican Representative Reed F. Cutler hung a sneering label on the gentleman governor: "Sir Galahad." And many of the old pols in his own party were willing to echo the sneer. Senate Democrats elected Boss Bill Connors, from Chicago's notorious 42nd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ILLINOIS: Sir Galahad & the Pols | 1/28/1952 | See Source »

Members of Harry Truman's staff have been inclined to sneer at Kefauver as an upstart who let TV spotlights, headlines and fan letters go to his head. Harry Truman himself has been cool toward his potential rival. Recently, however, as the Washington scandals began to hurt, a presidential staff member expressed a new attitude toward Kefauver: "Well, now, maybe Vice President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Cap Above the Ring | 1/7/1952 | See Source »

...Stalin blames the United States and Harry Truman. So does the Chicago Tribune. When the United Nations takes an effective step toward insuring peace by resisting aggression . . . both Stalin and McCormick attack the United Nations. At the Chicago Tribune they sit up all night figuring out new ways to sneer at our Government's program for world peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: A Knuckle-Dusting from Bertie | 12/24/1951 | See Source »

...ludicrous and embarassing" pictures of Truman in Palm Beach sport shirts which were appearing currently in newspapers and magazines. "It certainly must make a poor impression on people in other countries," he said. But the foreign students present were inclined to disagree. A Pakistani commented." Well, the British would sneer, the French might chuckle, but after all--he's a family man and a human being and entitled to some relaxation...

Author: By Jonathan O. Swan, | Title: Embryo Diplomats Pursue International Life, Studies at Small, Congenial Fletcher School | 12/14/1951 | See Source »

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