Word: contemptibly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cardano prescribed crap-shooting for himself as a relief from his ordinary work and worries. But he often meditated on the disadvantages of the treatment. What, he asked himself, can be gained? "If you have won much money, you may gain hatred, and if you lose, you may gain contempt...
Influence Peddler Henry ("The Dutchman") Grunewald finally came up for sentencing in Washington last week for his contemptuous refusal to answer the questioning of congressional investigators (TIME, April 27). Federal Judge Alexander Holtzoff, in a surprising aside, noted that Grunewald had been in contempt of Congress partly because of bad legal advice, fined him $1,000, added a go-day jail term, suspended it, and then put him on probation for a year...
...politics, Pusey and the students also agree, with the professors again dissenting. Pusey, a Republican but not formally, and the student body, supported Eisenhower in the fall. The faculty preferred Stevenson. But on one point all are united: Lawrence and its President have only contempt for Wisconsin's junior Senator. During the campaign, Pusey endorsed "The McCarthy Record," an objective condemnation of the Senator and his tactics. As one professor said, "Anyone can be anti-McCarthy in Cambridge, Massachusetts, but for the President of the college located in Appleton, Wisconsin--McCarthy's stronghold--to sign that report, well, that took...
...Harvard, before the Jenner Committee on May 8, David Hawkins, on a year's appointment at the University, also used the principal of calculated contempt. Hawkins admitted to membership in the Communist Party from 1938 to 1948, but like Goldman refused to talk about others...
...politics, Pusey and the students also agree, with the professors again dissenting. Pusey, a Republican but not formally, and the student body, supported Eisenhower in the fall. The faculty preferred Stevenson. But on the one point all are united: Lawrence and its President have only contempt for Wisconsin's junior Senator. During the campaign, Pusey endorsed "The McCarthy Record," an objective condemnation of the Senator and his tactics. As one professor said, "Any one can be anti-McCarthy in Cambridge, Massachusetts, but for the President of the college located in Appleton, Wisconsin--McCarthy's stronghold--to sign that report, well...