Word: contemptibly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nature of the totalitarians, had wishfully believed in the "peaceful coexistence" of democracy and warlike autocracy. He urged the next generation not to lose hope or faith in socialism, reason and persuasion-"Nothing established by violence and maintained by force, nothing that degrades humanity and is based on contempt for human personality can endure...
...year, every producer at $100, every film distributor at $10,000. The bill's language was vague, but Big Ed's intent was clear: licenses would be revoked whenever a holder was guilty of a crime involving moral turpitude, or whenever the censors decided a film encouraged "contempt for public or private morality." In short, whenever the censors disapproved of the private life of an actor-or the content of a film itself-they could kill the movie by their license-revoking powers...
...said, 'Generalissimo' (he loved that 'generalissimo'), I'd like to look at those maps with you, but it seems to me Mr. Molotov is bored.' Molotov was standing there, his mouth puckered like a stuffy butler. Stalin looked around with a terrific contempt. 'Oh, him . . .' he said." There is no reason to believe that Stalin's opinion of Malenkov is any higher...
...third time in its history, his United Mine Workers had been brought to trial for contempt of court. A conviction could have forced his union to pay a daily fine until it purged itself of the charge by getting its 370,000-odd soft-coal miners back to work. Such an order might have bankrupted the U.M.W.'s $15 million treasury; at least it could have brought John Lewis to his knees...
Satisfaction. "I rarely could perceive [in the interrogation] any personal hatred or enmity for me-contempt certainly, but sooner an academic, detached dealing with an annoying problem in order to achieve the goal, and a fanatic, rabid -obsession of devotion to Communism and hatred for Anglo-American resistance to them-all the newspaper talk is to them gospel truth. And in this respect they are to be taken as disciples and fervent followers of the dogma. Not much imagination, nor quick brains nor much intellectual baggage nor sensitivity-but enormous stores of character, undeviating loyalty to their creed, fanatic belief...