Word: spurn
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...spurn a dollar from the government he hoped to overthrow, he enrolled under the G.I. Bill of Rights at the University of the Philippines. In 1948 he married Celia Mariano, a Filipino girl who attracted Pomeroy for special reasons: "I deliberately chose for a wife an active comrade in the movement so that there will be no antagonisms or divided loyalties." Known as "Bob" and "Rene," the Pomeroys became regular instructors at a "Stalin University" attended by Huk guerrillas in the Sierra Madre mountains. In the records of the Philippine police they were listed...
...hoped to bring her soon "and I know you will fall in love with her the way I did-but I hope the result won't be the same." Every time he was offered the customary glass of water at a speaker's rostrum, he would spurn it, remarking: "I don't drink water, I'm a Kentuckian." He even had a line for school youngsters he encountered. "You can't vote this year," he would say, "but you will be voting before I quit running for office...
Harvard's Combined Charities Drive will spurn the large national charities this year, and concentrate instead on student-aid organizations, publicity chairman Marvin S. Eiger '51 announced yesterday...
...insurance since 1938. Costs come from a general social security levy of 7.5% on all incomes. Nearly 2,000,000 New Zealanders are entitled to free medical care except for specialist services. Most telling criticism has been that doctors are doing so well financially that they neglect research and spurn lower-paying hospital posts...
...zenith of popularity with "The Perils of Pauline" has given way to series, unconnected in plot, but cast in the same mold: The Great Gildersleeve, Andy Hardy, Laurel and Hardy, Crime Doctor, Doctor Gillespie, Fibber McGeo and Molly. People find these entertaining, just as they like familiar Tchaikowsky and spurn Shostakovich, but no further contribution to a stagnating film-art can come from such mechanically-whipped froth. To use the vernacular, when you've seen one, you've seen...