Word: contemptibly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...through college and was a teacher at the local high school. They were married in 1940. A month after Pearl Harbor, Nixon went to work for the OPA in Washington. Says he: "In OPA I learned respect for the thousands of hard-working Government employees and an equal contempt for most of the political appointees at the top. I saw Government overlapping and Government empire-building firsthand...
...intention at all of being funny. Romany is known at home as a stern judge and a man of enormous dignity and great political courage. Until last week he was chiefly famous for throwing Governor Rexford Guy Tugwell's cabinet in jail for contempt during a court action...
...curled in contempt, Ike lambasted the governmental corruption uncovered during Harry Truman's Administration. "We have had corruption before," he declared, "but never before has it reached such epidemic proportions . . . In little more than twelve months of this year and last, 117 persons in the Bureau of Internal Revenue alone were fired for dishonesty or other improper activities." That number does not include those who were allowed to resign "because of ill health." Laughter rolled through the crowd of 11,000 and, for the only time during the speech, Ike smiled...
...Quay (a Congressional Medal of Honor winner in the Civil War) who brought the alliance between the Republican Party and business interests to its fullest flower. A colleague said that Quay had "a consummate skill in calculating political quantities." He also had a profound Pennsylvania contempt for political hypocrisy. Quay and the Pennsylvania Railroad sent carloads of men into doubtful Indiana to vote for Harrison against Cleveland. When Harrison said: "Providence has given us the victory," Quay snarled: "Think of the man. He ought to know Providence had nothing to do with...
...guilt itself, and spiritual wickedness in high places; nevertheless, renouncing the things which men hold dear, wealth, position and prestige, and disregarding the statute of limitations in his own case, finally arouses the American people to their danger, and affirming anew against a background of indifference, lethargy and contempt the great truths of Christianity, is entitled, because of his white martyrdom of the spirit as a witness for God and country, to the degree of Doctor of Laws...