Word: contemptibly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Familiarity Breeds Contempt...
...Harvard, later became secretary of the American Council and (at the same time that he was organizing the Commie-front American Peace Mobilization) an I.P.R. trustee. When Field was called before the Senate committee, he wryly listed his occupation as "prisoner" because he was under arrest for contempt of court (in the bail-jumping case of the four top U.S. Communist leaders-TIME, July 16). He bantered affably with Pat McCarran and refused, on the ground of possible selfincrimination, to say whether he was a Communist or had written for Communist publications. Ex-Communist Whittaker Chambers took the stand...
...dreary outpost along the railroad tracks. On a visit to a carnival to buy a dog, he meets a calculating blonde floozy (Beverly Michaels), who soon has him at the end of her leash. Unable to resist his $7,000 bank account, she marries him. Then, showing her contempt as broadly as she chews her gum, she waits around for a chance to get rid of her husband and get her hands on his bank account...
...weight of the white man's burden. Even on the dark side of the color line which galled the three Africans aboard, there was no brotherhood. To Mr. O. K. Chibude, a leftist civil servant on the make, native Missionary Josiah Selwyn was a timid object of contempt. Lij Makonnen despised them both...
...part-time novelist, Author Mathew, Roman Catholic archbishop and Apostolic Delegate for Eastern and Western British Africa, is less charitable than his fellow novelist, Cardinal Spellman (The Foundling). A 49-year-old Englishman who started out to be a Navy officer, he shows nearly as much contempt as compassion for his cast of travelers. He wastes no time storytelling. Instead, having his characters where he wants them, he expertly lays bare their frustrations and the cheap ambitions that spur them on. When he brings them down with engine trouble, it is only to show how they disintegrate in adversity...