Word: disdaining
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1980
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...recent party in a Kirkland House entry, a group of well-dressed and beautifully made-up women appeared at the door. As the men swung their heads to survey the newcomers, the Harvard women nudged each other and pronounced with great disdain, "The Wellesley contingent is here...
...territory west of the Emerald Isle and south of the Canadian commonwealth, users of the dreaded "u" intend the letter to bespeak Old World sophistication and disdain for the intellectual squalor of the former colonies. Colour has the weight of Empire behind it; color is a graceless contraction...
They are the also-rans, the men who sought their party's nomination but didn't get it--the men who, back in 1978 and 1979, thought they had a chance in 1980, only to have those hopes dashed by repeated primary losses, public disdain or simple bad luck. They are the men who, after campaigning in earnest for months, realized on that Wednesday morning after the latest primary defeat or on that Saturday afternoon after another abysmal showing in a caucus that the support they never had really wasn't there...
Mark Blank, a retired professor of philosophy now living in the Philadelphia suburb of Jenkintown, has already cast an absentee ballot since he is planning a trip to Europe. A liberal Democrat all his life, Blank voted for Anderson. He has only disdain for Carter: "The fact that by comparison Jerry Ford has been elevated to the rank of elder statesman is sufficient reason to vote against Carter." Of Reagan, Blank says: "His economics are incomprehensible. I am a hostage to the future in the person of my grandson, and Reagan's urgings that we be No.l in arms...
...that choosing the leader of the West was too important a decision to be left only to Americans. It is a notion that world leaders would eagerly endorse this year. Although they are discreetly keeping their feelings to themselves, they are watching the 1980 campaign with varying degrees of disdain and dismay. In general, they like none of the three candidates, though most would reluctantly cast their ballots for Jimmy Carter. West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt expressed one major reason when he told aides, "At least I have got more or less used to Carter." But local and regional considerations...