Word: sneering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plea is made, however, that TIME readers sympathize with rather than sneer at us for this new phenomenon in Philippine life, brought about by Japanese occupation. Before Pearl Harbor, criminality in the Philippines was no worse than in the U.S. and in other countries. After the American surrender at Corregidor, Filipino character . . . had the ruggedness to choose continuance of resistance against the Japs either by guile or by force, in the hills and in the valleys, to make General MacArthur's promised return come sooner, less costly in American lives...
...Europe, a doctrine of isolation. The policy expanded again with John Hay's "Open Door" in China. Under Theodore Roosevelt, it landed the U.S. in the middle of the world stage. It reached a climax in 1917 when Woodrow Wilson, in words which it became fashionable to sneer at in the '30s, said...
...Sneer of Shame." Churchill was in his best apocalyptic form: "It is with deep grief that I watch the clattering down of the British Empire, with all its glories and all the services it has rendered to mankind. . . . Many have defended Britain against her foes. None can defend her against herself. We must face the evils that are coming upon us and that we are powerless to avert. We must not . . . exclude any expedient that may help to mitigate the ruin and disaster that will follow the disappearance of Britain from the East. But at least...
...York's serious-minded critics had as much to say about the success of movies as they do about legitimate stage attempts, "The Big Sleep" would already be mouldering in its grave. Crowther and company slashed at it for "incoherence" as they gave it thumbs down with a typical sneer. What they failed to comprehend was that this latest Bogart-Bacall opus thrills while it confuses and is likely to leave its audiences just as interested as bewildered...
...become fashionable of late to distrust all organizations of nations. Conditioned by the failures of their fathers, this generation has come to sneer easily at the attempts of men to compromise. In a sense, a degree of healthy cynicism may prove to be the attitude under which controversial countries can best conciliate. Twenty years ago a spiritual failure of the League of Nations was the generally blithe assumption that the "spade would work by itself." The inability to understand that an assembly of states is only a tool which must be used by its members was the flaw that destroyed...