Word: contemptible
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cited for contempt ten Hollywood writers and producers for refusing to testify during its Un-American Activities Committee hearings on Communism in the movie industry (TIME...
...squabble grew so hot that in May Canada's embassy in Washington asked Secretary of State Marshall for assistance in preventing any undesirable interference with Canadian companies. Nevertheless, as late as Oct. 10 bumbling U.S. Attorney General Tom Clark was considering contempt proceedings. Asked for his reaction on such a step, Secretary Marshall pointed out that the affair has aroused "considerable concern" in Canada. That was enough for Clark. Instead of contempt crackdowns, he sent top Department officials to Ottawa to confer with Canadian newsprint interests...
White-haired, deep-eyed old Metropolitan Theophilus, 73, head of the American church, refuses to grant Moscow's Patriarch even spiritual authority. "I wouldn't trust any Bolshevik," he mutters. But not all North American bishops share his contempt for the Patriarch's difficult and dangerous game of pattycake with the Kremlin. Explained handsome, popular young Bishop John of Brooklyn last week...
Like a judge donning the black cap to pronounce the death penalty, the Speaker of the House of Commons placed his black cocked hat on his bewigged head. Then he read the sentence. For breach of confidence, an affront to the House, and contempt, the Honorable Member from Gravesend, Garry Allighan, was expelled from Commons...
Patton's well-known contempt for Montgomery seeps into these pages, but with less virulence than his supporters have indulged in. "The 31st was the last day on which Montgomery was to command United States troops, so all of us had a keen appetite for dinner. At 0800 [the next morning] we heard that Montgomery had been made a Field Marshal and proclaimed the greatest living soldier. Our appetite for breakfast was not so good." He quotes with approval Bradley's comment that Monty's promise of a "dagger thrust" at Germany would be more like...