Word: contemptibly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ROTC--a military unit of any kind--is an abomination on any college campus. For a college to tolerate the existence of such a unit during peacetime, when very few students are interested in it, and most look with contempt upon it (and correctly so), is more of a concession than should properly be allowed. To permit it to take a position of as great importance in college as it has at present at Harvard is completely out of keeping with all that the University stands for and aims toward. Harvard is not, and should not be educating its students...
...considered a man of distinction among the U.S. brotherhood of fixers, shady dealers and influence peddlers, it has become virtually mandatory to be tapped for contempt of Congress. Last week two more big-name members of the tribe were sporting their lodge emblems...
...Washington, bald, jovial Henry W. ("The Dutchman") Grunewald, the semi-mystery man of the income-tax scandals, was cited by unanimous (334-0) vote of the House. The members found him in contempt for "willful and deliberate" refusal to cooperate with the Ways & Means Committee, which was trying to find out about his part in several juicy tax fixes...
...Manhattan, Gambler Frank Costello, who was convicted of contempt of the Senate's Crime Investigating Committee (and promptly appealed), was sentenced by Federal Judge Sylvester J. Ryan to 18 months and $5,000. Said Costello, in polite if gravel-voiced tones: "Thank...
...stealthily preparing a dynamite charge to blow up the office, and another child-at the end of a leash-growling savagely at a terrified dog. Asks the startled clerk: "And you say you have experience with riots, first aid, salvage and repair, a knowledge of weapons and nothing but contempt for the atom bomb...