Word: contemptibly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...months London's sensational Sunday press and gossipmongers in Britain have been feeding a smoldering resentment on the part of Britons against the 35,000-odd U.S. airmen now stationed in their country. The age-old criticisms of the visiting American-brash boastfulness, too free spending, a careless contempt for local manners & morals-have been heard again on every side. Chief source of irritation: loose behavior of a few airmen and the hordes of British prostitutes who pursue them in every liberty city...
...most respectable enterprises, patronizes a fashionable psychiatrist, and takes pains to meet all the best people. The first well-publicized specimen of this new breed of gangsters was New York's Frank Costello. Last week, with Costello safely tucked away in Atlanta Federal Penitentiary on a contempt rap, New York's four-man State Crime Commission opened public hearings in Manhattan, and soon flushed the man billed as Costello's heir, another sample of the new breed named Thomas Luchese (rhymes with "too lazy...
Last week the answer became clear. The Russians, who have a great respect for the forms of diplomacy and a cynical contempt for its use, have imprisoned Linse under another name. This enabled them to say that they did not know-officially-of Linse's whereabouts. U.S. authorities now know Linse's prison name, and in what East Berlin jail he is held. Moreover, the U.S.-sponsored Die Neue Zeitung even published his prison number...
...course, then, is needed. It would not be compulsory, since there are bound to be some with an adequate background, and others with a positive contempt for these topics. We suggest an upper-group Natural Sciences course with course credit but not distribution credit. The exact curriculum is better left to the doctors assigned to teach it. They can draw on many successful prototypes in other schools. The course should start soon, for there is as much need for sex hygiene and marriage counseling as for any other area of knowledge...
...Soviet admirers who organized at the University after the war were few and their activities time. But anti-Russian feeling was soon so high that their every move drew nation-wide publicity and student contempt. When 26 students received, in 1948, a charter for the American Youth for Democracy, papers headlined the fact that "Harvard OK's Red-Front Student Unit." AYD members were mugged by students when distributing literature in Wigglesworth Hall...