Word: contemptibly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Half-Nelson. Contempt proceedings were begun against the union in Chicago (where the Government was preparing to demand $500,000-a-day fines), in Cleveland and in Washington. The President denounced the workers. But this time the railroaders seemed determined to keep their half-nelson on the country until it wheezed...
Smith picked up where he had left off reading a WAR IN ASIA story titled "The Enemy." While his feet obeyed the captain's flanking orders, he yelled out our report on Red China's new anti-American propaganda: "Look with contempt on the U.S., for she is a paper tiger and can fully be defeated...
...Throughout the Korean campaign," said MacArthur, "this same writer has repeatedly written off the Army as lost, and by his biased and inaccurate reporting held up to universal contempt the courage and fighting qualities of the gallant American soldier and the leadership of his officers . . . The identical attack of which you speak was carried in another periodical six weeks ago [the New York Herald Tribune], and was used by the Soviet as a weapon against the United States in the forum of the United Nations and was widely carried in the Soviet press...
Wrote the British South China Morning Post: "The American evacuation is considered unnecessaryand almost hostile for its suggestion of contempt for Hong Kong's security and carelessness of Hong Kong's credit...
Even as Communist Party conventions go, it was a dismal affair. The party's secretary general, mouthy Eugene Dennis, was unavoidably detained-by the bars of Manhattan's federal house of detention, where he is serving a year for contempt of Congress. The other ten convicted top party leaders were facing jail, too, unless the Supreme Court should throw out their conviction for conspiracy. Membership had shrunk (from 80,000 last year to no more than 55,000). But none of this had dulled the U.S. Communists' love for Russia or their hatred for the American form...