Word: contemptibly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Silvio Capuana could never forget the poverty of his youth, or the pain and contempt it had brought him in the Apennine village of Contrada, where he was born 60 years ago. Reared in a two-room hovel swarming with flies, brothers and sisters, all as dirty and hungry as himself, he had spent his childhood working long hours in the local wheatfields for a few pennies a day, resenting the shouts of harsh masters and dreaming of a better life. As soon as he was old enough, he fled to seek his fortune in Canada...
...extra water will dissolve the jams and rush the beached wood along on its interrupted journey. Pushbutton logging is here to stay, but the dead yesterday of whiter water, bigger jams, geysers of dynamited wood, is still recalled fondly by a few oldtime draveurs. Murmured one, with fine contempt: "Today, it's like picking flowers...
Author Tomlinson rails at high taxes, showers his contempt on movies and movie palaces. Old globetrotter that he is, he is intolerably pained by the whole wearisome modern business of passports and visas: "In 1910 I arrived, for the first time, at a shore of the United States. I had no papers and hardly any money. So what happened when I met Authority? I did not meet the august thing. I went down the gangway with my bag, quite openly, and took a tram into the city. That was all. Nor did it strike me as odd. From there...
State, the Earl of Home: "When we saw the contempt with which you treated the weather, then Scotland was at your feet." But the Queen was beginning to have qualms. Said Salote in a broadcast to her people: "Much as we have liked to stay in England, I think I must end by saying that we are looking forward to traveling home . . . The English weather has been very nice, and warm, but cold at times." Though it also rains in Tonga, it is always warm...
...subject that he once flabbergasted the officials of a busy bank by crawling about on his hands and knees, searching for fossils in the marble wall. Though a tough teacher (during an examination he strolled among his students whistling Have You Forgotten So Soon?), he had an unorthodox contempt for scientific gobbledygook: "If it looks like a dog, smells like a dog and bites me," he would say, "well, I call...