Word: disdained
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...Croft scoffer now, Tony looks with disdain at a "motor villa" he also owns. "Viva Tony," he shouts, "two more years da bulbs, you can have da joint...
...member of the underground. By this process she "grows a soul." Caldwell reintroduces a family she has written about before, the Bouchards, who are still the blackest-hearted munitions makers ever spawned by the folklore of America's peace-befuddled '30s. They quarrel, haggle, hate, interbreed with disdain, intrigue desperately against one another and their country. At the end of 561 perfervid pages, the toughest member of the current generation forces his malignant tribe to acknowledge that they had better cooperate with the war effort or else...
Fuel Minister Gwilym Lloyd George hastily laid new proposals before the industry, owners and miners alike. For him the miners had the same disbelieving disdain they accorded their own union leaders...
...Massive Disdain. His own orthodoxy he revealed in an equal disdain for 20th-century socialism and 20th-century imperialism. In a world of massive empires and massive trusts, Chesterton wanted a revival of opportunity for the small shopkeeper and farmer. He called Britain's colonies deplorable, distracting "suburbs." One of his objections to the Boer War was Britain's destruction of a small nation of small farmers. Where Shaw wanted state socialism (which Chesterton and his friends denounced as "the Servile State"*), Chesterton wanted Distributism (the division of land into small holdings, and of chain stores into thousands...
...World War I he was a private. The Civil War gave him an opportunity to display his talents, saw him rise to the command of a cavalry division. Today his soldiers rate Vatutin as a "driving general," recall with awe last winter's campaign, when with fury and disdain for physical suffering he hurled his men into attack in the fiercest blizzards until the Nazi defenses in the Don loop crumbled...