Word: contemptibly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Committee's loyalty check rapidly turned by innuendo into an attack on the Secretariat itself. When secretary-general Trygve Lie ordered employees to be silent on official U.N. business, O'Connor claimed this obstructed the Committee. He threatened any witness who followed Lie's order with punishment for contempt, and labeled the Secretariat a home of subversive activities in the United States...
...point out that his enemies were nothing but olive trees. Huseyin would have none of it. The police, desperate for arguments, pointed to the olive trees in his own garden. What about those, they asked. Why didn't you kill them? Huseyin the patriot merely glared in contempt. "Those," he answered, "are Turkish soldiers...
...juggernaut . . . They ride it in arrogance and vengeance ... I charge these . . . leaders with the destruction of unity between the whites; with the use of fear and the trickery of a word (apartheid) to gain power-a word which has become an evil symbol throughout the world; with having shown contempt for all decent Christian sentiments in non-white relations . . .; with alienating friendly nations abroad; with . . . violating the rule of law to retain power...
...went to the last [depth-marker], 297 feet down ... In my bisected brain the satisfaction was balanced by satirical self-contempt. . . [Back] at 264 feet, the rapture vanished suddenly, inexplicably and entirely...
...ignores its subjects welfare), with almost every political vice the Asians can conceive. It will do no good to assert Chiang's new-found virtue, especially since that is doubtful anyway, nor to protest that the accusations are false, especially since many of them are quite true. Asia's contempt for Chiang is a fact, something the State Department must consider as it considers the fact of Communism itself. The loss of such valuable countries as India and Indonesia will be the reward of any administration which ignores it. Hanging the nationalist albatross around American necks is a sure...