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Word: contemptibly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...builder, Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt. The Civil Rights Congress bail fund, of which Field is secretary, has handed over about $450,000 in bail money for the beleaguered Communists in the past three years. He is a registered foreign agent, as a lobbyist for Communist China. Congress cited him for contempt last year for refusing to answer questions, but he was acquitted in Federal court on a plea of possible selfincrimination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Angel | 7/16/1951 | See Source »

...reserves his greatest contempt, and his most telling scenes, for the kind of people who he presumably hopes will come to see his movie-the packs of ordinary citizens who crowd by car, bus and train to the arid site of Minosa's entombment and settle down cheerfully in tents and trailers for a morbid spectators' holiday. With them come radio and TV showmen and a neon-lighted traveling carnival, with Ferris wheel, pitchmen, hamburger stands and a hillbilly band bawling a specially concocted ballad, We're Coming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 9, 1951 | 7/9/1951 | See Source »

...Contempt-of-court sentences against six of the Communists' lawyers were upheld...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MACARTHUR STORY: Five Star Firing | 6/25/1951 | See Source »

...Might be cited for contempt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MACARTHUR STORY: Five Star Firing | 6/25/1951 | See Source »

...Upheld the contempt-of-court sentences of the Communists' six lawyers, for their raucous courtroom conduct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SUPREME COURT: Black Day for the Reds | 6/11/1951 | See Source »

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