Word: disdainful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bill Mauldin's favorite gripes, which are the gripes of all infantrymen. Among them: revulsion at "spit & polish" in the field; envy of rear-echelon men who take over the towns after the infantrymen have captured them, occupy all the best spots and drink all the liquor; disdain for brass hats full of arrogance and stuffing...
...Court of Appeals in the District of Columbia, Fred Vinson is still best remembered for his hard, intelligent work on tax bills in the House. As Jimmy Byrnes's successor in OES, he has worked mightily to hold the line against inflation. An easygoing man with a quiet disdain of officious fuss-&-feathers, he was sure to be confirmed by the Senate: he is the archtype of the middle-of-the-road, politically wise New Dealer...
...What Cheek!" Next day he stepped out to watch the war. A burst of Spandau machine-gun fire hit a wall 30 yards away. Said Sandhurst's Churchill, with disdain: "What cheek!" He went on watching...
...Forces Auxiliary Corps, age 18 to 36, headed bv a Nazi luminary, Frau Scholtz-Klink. In Army administration, signal and antiaircraft jobs, the W.A.F.A.C., too, releases men for the sorely pressed fighting fronts. The W.A.F.A.C. council is ruled, appropriately, by that famed lover of women, Dr. Goebbels. Affecting to disdain the Russian practice of thrusting women into battle, the Völkischer Beobachter snorted: "It is not a question of training something like the Soviet Russian Flintenweiber [rifle wenches]. We will not have any un-German amazons and everything will be done to prevent the female nature and habits from...
...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...