Word: contemptibly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spotlight on Capitol Hill last week. It had been 16 months since the mysterious Grunewald first appeared before the House subcommittee investigating the Bureau of Internal Revenue. At that time, he went clam-quiet after revealing no more than his name and age. Last week, having pleaded guilty to contempt of Congress, Grunewald was trying to talk his way into a light sentence. But he was still part clam, opening his shell only when it suited his convenience, clamming up again on questions he deemed "not pertinent...
...trainers to China in 1938). In 1946 the United Mine Workers paid him a big fee (at one point Grunewald thought it was $15,000-$16,000, later had it down to $5,250) to investigate Federal Judge T. Alan Goldsborough, who was soon to preside over a contempt of court case against U.M.W. Grunewald said his friend from New Hampshire, Senator Styles Bridges, steered him into the Goldsborough job. (Bridges denied...
Still, the old saying that "familiarity breeds contempt" just isn't true these days. The undergraduate succumbed first to the Radcliffe girl's charm, although he attributed her overall mark superiority to her "learning everything by role, spewing it forth at exams, and getting A's, or that failing, sidling up to an instructor, displaying a little leg, and getting...
Steady Job Without Pay. Charles Dawes's bedrock integrity never led him into a silly contempt for money. In 1880, when his father was running for Congress, young Charley, 15, startled his staunch Republican family by parading past their Marietta, Ohio home tootling a flute in the opposition band. It was, he explained airil when he got home, a purely professional appearance for which he had received one silver dollar...
Formerly a close friend of Mahatma Gandhi, Menon shares Gandhi's contempt for force...