Word: contemptibly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President, who has been heard to call Axis Junior Partner Francisco Franco a rascal-among other things-made no attempt to hide his continuing contempt for Spain's dictator. He said his attitude toward Spain hasn't changed one bit. But Harry Truman, like many other people, was beginning to be less & less choosy about allies. Franco, after all, sits in a strategic position in the Mediterranean and in Europe, and he has 22 divisions, though his troops are poorly armed and he himself is of dubious dependability. As his ambassador, the President chose Stanton Griffis, onetime Ambassador...
Reds and party-liners have a perfect right to refuse to answer questions about their Communist activities-so long as they take advantage of their constitutional privilege not to incriminate themselves. Then the law cannot touch them for contempt. So the Supreme Court ruled last week in an 8-0 decision written by Justice Hugo Black...
...decision involved a minor Communist Party official in Colorado named Mrs. Patricia Blau. Called as a witness in a federal grand-jury investigation in 1949, Mrs. Blau stood on her right to avoid selfincrimination, refused to say whether she knew anything about the party. She was tried for contempt, sentenced to a year in jail...
Earl Browder had gone to jail acting as though he were delighted at the chance to be a martyr. He didn't have $1,500 to put up as bail on a contempt of Congress charge, and, he said contentedly, he didn't know where to find...
...rally pledged a boycott of U.S. medicines. Everywhere students were recruited for military service. Peking's Current Affairs Journal instructed the faithful: "Hate the U.S., for she is the deadly enemy of the Chinese people. Despise the U.S., for she is a rotten imperialist nation . . . Look with contempt on the U.S., for she is a paper tiger and can fully be defeated . . ." The Journal added that China should not fear superior U.S. resources. "This superiority," it explained ominously, "is only temporary . . . After the [Communist] liberation of [Western] Europe, the total steel production of the Soviet Union and [its allies...