Word: disdainful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cutting off, say, Massachusetts Senator Edward Brooke in mid-thought with an authoritative "Excuse me, there is a signal from the anchor desk." From the Olympus of air-conditioned booths cantilevered above the convention floor, their colleagues, the TV pundits, looked down on the delegates with detachment and sometimes disdain, commenting with urbane coolness on the proceedings...
...night under indifferent lighting in smoke-filled halls" -a far cry from Wimbledon's outdoor grass courts. The biggest problem was probably the pros' very professionalism -their tendency to hit "percentage" shots (while amateurs gambled on riskier shots that proved to be winners) and their basic disdain for their amateur opponents...
...Your cover portrait of De Gaulle is quite brilliant. All the disdain, pride, arrogance, intelligence and worry is perfectly portrayed...
...crowd which gathered outside Elsie's in Freedom Square each morning to go up to New Hampshire was one mainly of middle-class moderates with a few SDS followers sprinkled among them. The real radicals, however, had only disdain for the campaign...
...Britain's International Publishing Corporation. He took charge of Britain's biggest publishing empire in 1951 and ruled it completely; his personality radiated confidence. At 67, he is a strapping 6 ft. 4 in., weighs over 200 Ibs., and combines a corrosive wit with an air of disdain for all the lesser creatures. Few publishers anywhere would have felt sure enough of themselves to say of their leading paper, as King said of the London Daily Mirror: "You can't publish a paper which appeals to people less educated and less intellectual...