Word: sneering
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...This tragic fight at Dienbienphu, instead of splitting French opinion, brings unanimity and greater courage for the ever-increasing majority of French non-Communists . . . Americans should not perpetually sneer at our French government for being lousy; they should try to improve their...
...Finley jibe and sneer...
...great applause, the Marshal announced that he was speaking for the good of France, to force the Cabinet to put EDC to a decision. Standing at ease at the banquet table, his epaulettes glittering, his voice tinged with a sneer, he slapped at the government. "What we really need is to have a government." Cabinets "without continuity" can do nothing, he complained, and appeals for, action are lost on "administrations without ears and without guts." His voice rose. "We are a great country which still has some good cards to play, but must know how to play them...
...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...