Word: contemptibly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were killed later that year in a pogrom. Aliases: Juanesky, Jouanneau, Joinov, Innovici, Joinou, Joseph Levy. Employment: ragpicker, scrap metal dealer, entrepreneur, double agent. Has been a citizen of Rumania and the Soviet Union, but now claims to be a stateless person. Wanted for swindling, nonpayment of taxes, contempt of court, illegal exit. Physical description: short, pudgy, grey-haired, looks vaguely like Alfred Hitchcock...
When Marie Torre, radio-TV columnist for the New York Herald Tribune, stood before U.S. Judge Sylvester J. Ryan in November 1957, the court expressed sympathy ("the Joan of Arc of her profession") even while holding her in contempt of court. Last week Judge Ryan was not so generous. "You set a very poor example for your fellow citizens," he said, after Columnist Torre declined once more to share a secret she has kept for two years. The judge ordered her to jail...
...factor in French government, has laid the groundwork for a fruitful new relationship between France and her onetime African colonies, and has immensely strengthened France's moral and psychological position in revolt-torn Algeria. Above all, he has given Frenchmen back their pride, swept away the miasma of self-contempt that has hung over France since its ignominious capitulation to Hitler...
...find De Gaulle in their baggage.") But to achieve power legitimately, he needed parliamentary approval, above all, that of the Socialist Party. Accordingly, when Socialist Guy Mollet flew down to Colombey to see whether he could support De Gaulle with a clear conscience, the general smothered all his longtime contempt for party politics, turned on such charm that Mollet departed with the declaration: "Today has been the finest day of my life...
...almost the moment that Goldfine was being fingerprinted and bailed out ($1,000) of the capital's Federal Court Building until a March 16 trial, another contempt decision was being logged in Boston. U.S. District Judge Charles Wyzanski Jr. found Goldfine and faithful Secretary Mildred Paperman guilty of criminal contempt (but postponed their sentence) for not turning over complete records of three Goldfine textile companies to an 80-man Internal Revenue task force fine-combing Goldfine's bewildering financial empire for tax fraud. And as though two contempt trials were not enough, a third gets under way this...