Word: scornful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Undergraduate Council did the cause of student empowerment a disservice by accepting so limited a victory. It would have done better to exhibit publicly scorn for a Corporation that fancies itself an exclusive club...
Since the beginning of Harvard, when the first University Master, Nathaniel Eaton, and his wife were run out of Cambridge for serving rotten food to cut costs, Harvard's dining system has been the object of derision and scorn...
...greeted with scorn. One person asked, "When is Eugene Debs' birthday?" I'm the last person you'd want to ask that. Some one else informed me that Lincoln was a tyrant...
Beds at the shelters are scarce, and fill up first with the old, the very young, and women. Young men have little hope of getting a bed, and some have even come to scorn the shelters. Says Michael Brown, 24: "It stinks to high heaven in those places. They're just packed with people and when the lights go out, it's everybody for themselves." Michael, a short, self-described con man, has been living on the streets three years, ever since holding up a convenience store in Little Rock. He fled, fearing capture, but now misses the two young...
...academe, where males are generally considered far more likely to win tenure than females. Administrators claim that in using the gypsies, they are only doing what they have to do in the face of academe's changing needs and hardening realities. Moreover, laymen and even some independent-minded faculty scorn tenure as a refuge for the insecure or the marginally competent. But the fact is that tenure or some analogous security blanket is basic to the role of the university as an arena of open inquiry. Scholars must be free within wide bounds to teach, write and research in accordance...