Word: contemptable
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...ultimately running a camp newspaper on the island of Adak in the Aleutians. The postwar climate grew chilly to Hammett's politics. Ordered to testify before a federal judge in 1951, he appeared but refused to cooperate and was sentenced to six months in jail for contempt. When he got out, his income had dried up, and he faced claims for more than $110,000 in back taxes...
...were treated and make decisions based on that." Terzano argues that unless Viet Nam veterans receive both practical help and symbolic acknowledgement of the sacrifice they made, younger Americans will be left with the inescapable impression that only suckers sign up?that service merely invites contempt...
...centers dramatically increased immediately after Americans festooned the nation from coast to coast with yellow ribbons. The 52 hostages, after 444 days of captivity, got lifetime passes to baseball games; thousands of Viet Nam vets, who spent years in a form of internal exile, had been rewarded with either contempt or oblivion...
Their nine-week debut season led off with a rumbustious, top-of-the-lungs revival of The Front Page, that cynical fairy tale of newsmen with contempt for the truth who nonetheless embrace newspapering with a passion that crushes all other loves. Next week the theater will present Ted Tally's 1977 Terra Nova, a poetic, emotional drama about Robert Falcon Scott's second-place finish in the race to reach the South Pole-and his team's anguished way back, with the last of them dying only a few miles from base camp. While those productions...
Tchaikovsky, who loved to dance, was irresistibly attracted to writing ballets. If his structural sense of music was weak, he was a wizardly orchestrator who turned out waltzes and mazurkas that set feet flying. Along with Léo Delibes, he rescued ballet music from critical contempt...