Word: sneering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...read history either with a sneer or conversely only after the black pages have been deleted, is the equivalent of drinking water from a poisoned well. To be sure, cold, unemotional, purely factual analysis of human history is difficult and a similar examination of contemporary events is impossible to achieve...
...they ascended the deck. The American generals watched them come to attention in their designated places with varying degrees of emotion. Stilwell bristled like a dog at the sight of an enemy. Spaatz' chiseled face lines were sharp in contempt. Kenney curled his lips in a visible sneer...
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...Light. The court consisted of three judges and one alternate, all from the Red Army Judicial Service. The President Justice was Colonel General Vassily V. Ulrich, a round-faced, double-chinned man with twinkling eyes and a merry grin which sometimes seemed on the verge of becoming a sneer. The two prosecutors were Major General Nikolai A. Afanasyev and State Counselor R. A. Rudenko. Four movie cameras-two rigged for sound and two silent-eight Klieg lights and a restless dozen still photographers, each festooned with two to five German made cameras, recorded the scene...
...nchen-Gladbach last week a military government's court for civilians sentenced two boys (16 and 17) to death for spying. Both the sentence and the scrupulously just proceedings impressed the Germans. Leniency in other cases, when death was promised by the regulations but not enforced, made Germans sneer behind their hands. In occupied Germany, among a people who would surely compare U.S., British and Russian performances, the quality of mercy had its dangers...