Word: contemptibly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another rule: no more than 72-lb. test line for anglers who weigh under 200 Ibs.; no more than null test line for the heavyweights. Gifford has nothing but explosive contempt for "muscleheads" who insist on fishing for saltwater monsters with "rope." He explains, between oaths: "Most fishermen aren't strong enough to handle 39-thread (130-lb. test line) and keep pressure on a fish. I've seen them taken off the boat dead or go back home and die of a heart attack. Secondly, rope doesn't give the fish a fair chance...
...Congressional committees, by majority vote, should become the final judges of whether their questions to witnesses are pertinent to a valid legislative purpose. This is in reply to last year's Supreme Court decision reversing the contempt-of-Congress conviction of United Auto Workers Organizer John Watkins, who had refused to identify past Communist associates to the House Un-American Activities Committee. The court held that Watkins had been denied due process because he had no way of knowing whether the committee's questions were actually pertinent to a valid legislative purpose...
...Atomic Energy Commission, all of which had given orders that no one was to enter the testing area, set sail from Honolulu for Eniwetok. In half an hour they were overtaken by a Coast Guard cutter and towed back to Hawaii. They have now been arrested for criminal contempt of court...
Stalling Nogoodniks. San Francisco's Federal District Judge Edward Murphy thundered that Barber's treatment of Heikkila smacked of "the Gestapo, the thumbscrew and the rack." Bowing to Murphy's contempt-of-court threat and shocked public opinion, the Justice Department ordered Heikkila brought back to the U.S. By week's end, smiling happily, he was home in San Francisco again, reunited with his U.S.-born wife Phyllis. Scheduled for this week in Judge Murphy's court is a hearing to decide what happens next...
...crewmen faced a charge of criminal contempt of court...