Word: disdainful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Leonid Mitrofanovich Zamyatin, their chief press secretary, leaned back in his nighttime encounters with Jody Powell and spouted the Soviet line with a certain disdain. After all, he had regularly chewed up past U.S. press secretaries: Pierre Salinger, Ron Ziegler, Ron Nessen. Powell, the Vienna (say Vye-an-uh), Ga., debater, was clearly superior. His voice and manner were more forceful, he refuted the Soviet charges with facts and a down-home touch of nastiness, zinged his adversary with some humor. The thought crossed several minds that Zamyatin, like the other Soviets, had been too long in his iron cocoon...
...burgher prosperity and bustling stability, West Germany is not without problems. The burden of the unemployment falls mainly on the Gastarbeiter, the 3.9 million "guest workers" and their families imported over the years from Turkey, Yugoslavia, Italy, Greece and Portugal to do the menial jobs that West Germans disdain. As jobs have become scarcer, more than a million Gastarbeiter have been repatriated, either by inducement or expulsion; the remainder live as alienated poor in urban ghettos, cut off from the rest of society...
Radcliffe justly takes pride in the advancements it has helped women achieve in the Harvard community. When Radcliffe began, many people looked upon the idea of highly educated women with suspicion and disdain. Now undergraduate women at Harvard can participate fully in University life, unhindered by most outside barriers; but those gains for women have paralleled a loss in Radcliffe's raison d'etre...
Difficult as these fights were, the Democratic leaders actually had more trouble with their big-spending allies. Lobbyists from consumer, church, education, union and urban groups stalked Congressmen in the halls and their offices, showing open disdain for efforts to reduce the budget, despite the clear public cry for less Government spending. Scoffed Kenneth Young, chief lobbyist for the AFL-CIO: "The members are looking for ways to show how fiscally responsible they are. I'm afraid too many are just looking for political votes." Added Evelyn Dubrow, veteran lobbyist for the International Ladies' Garment Workers: "I think...
Many SDS members disdain this type of criticism, however. Ansara called people who question the morality of the takeover "short-sighted and pea-brained." He said that "the strategy of disruption and confrontation was necessary to force the issue on the American people...