Word: disdainful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week 800 Japanese women met in Tokyo's cavernous Hibiya Hall to consider their lot under the new dispensation. Grey-haired oldsters in kimonos and obis, bobbed-haired college girls in sweaters and skirts, aggressive feminists in slacks, gabbled enthusiastically and glared in frosty disdain at the few men present. They pointed with pride to some of the advances gained by their sex since the constitution: divorce, women's suffrage, the acceptance of women in an ever expanding range of jobs (as legislators, police officers, taxi drivers, even judges), increased coeducation, the spread of women...
...University has never smiled on the mediums of popular entertainment. Throughout its history, the Corporation treated theatricals as the blacksheep of extracurricular activities. And with the growth of commercial broadcasts, the Administration's disdain entered this field with the rule that: "No organization shall be allowed to appear on a commercially sponsored radio or TV program." While theatrical stock has risen this year, the ban on radio and television continues...
...result, said Churchill, is "a certain element of equality of annihilation. Strange as it may seem-and I beg you not to disdain it-it is to the universality of potential destruction that I feel we may have to look with hope, and even with confidence...
...merits of each. Had he stuck to his first inclination to show Belcredi as a serious man working hard at a studied foppery he would have succeeded admirably. But he continually interjected another character--that of a bored and pouting aristocrat whose chief occupation was making little moues of disdain, anger, and hurt pride. The remaining actors were uniformly competent without shining, which considering the high quality of the leads, is quite praiseworthy...
...workers gathered for the annual conference of the Trades Union Congress. The Bevanites came with thoraxes well oiled and briefcases crammed with speeches and resolutions concocted to harass, convert, and, if possible, uproot the T.U.C.'s Percheron-stolid leadership. Amplified by Communist and fellow-traveler support which they disdain but inevitably attract, Bevanite voices rang out with demands for censure against T.U.C. members who accept posts in the Conservative Churchill government, for condemnation of U.S. cold war policy, for criticism of the West's support of the anti-Soviet rebels in Berlin. Methodically the lumbering majority voted them...