Word: contemptable
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...Brigades' members make no secret of their contempt for Communists -or anyone else who advocates other solutions-though they have been pragmatic enough to join the other radical groups in a united front against the government. Premier Pinheiro de Azevedo's government is let off rather lightly as being hopelessly ineffectual. "It has all of the intentions to be repressive, but it is not able to be," Carmo says genially...
...habitual rapists "have developed an anger and contempt for women," says Nicholas Groth, chief psychologist of the Massachusetts Center for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Sexually Dan gerous Persons. But he sees the core defect as "a sense of emptiness-of being nothing, and therefore having no regard for himself or for others. When you don't have anything else-job success, friend ship, family ties-your last resort for creating your own identity is sexual aggression...
...been away from Harvard for 15 years. Wolfe came to Harvard as a graduate student in English in 1920, mainly to join Professor George Pierce Baker's course, English 47, a highly selective playwriting workshop. At first, Wolfe worshipped Baker and his course, although he had nothing but contempt for the other students in the class. As he describes them in "Of Time and the River," his novel about his Harvard years, they were pretentious and untalented. He thought they were snobs, and they regarded his eccentricities as freakish...
...teachers were in a fighting mood when the strike deadline approached. Finally, after a marathon negotiating session, the union broke off talks, and the strike was on. Suffolk Superior Court Judge Samuel Adams later found five union leaders in contempt of court for continuing the strike-and imposed a $25,000-a-day fine against the union for every day the schools remain closed...
...Probably the most bitter was in Wilmington, Del, where 253 teachers were arrested last week on charges of disorderly conduct after police broke up a picket line outside the school administration building. All told, more than 400 of Wilmington's 800 teachers have been arrested or cited for contempt of court since the strike started Sept. 2. The mass arrests resulted from the aggressive policies of politically ambitious Mayor Thomas Maloney, 33, who charged the Wilmington Teachers Union with "city busting...