Word: contemptibly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Guibat tribesmen known as the "blue men" because their robes are colored with an indigo dye that rubs off onto their skin. Rich and, until recently, gunrunning, slave-trafficking nomads who hold a virtual monopoly on camel raising in the western Sahara, they hold colonial borders in warlike contempt...
...Jeers & Contempt. Last week, after Okinawa's High Court and the Ryukyus legislature refused to interfere, Army Lieut. General James E. Moore, the U.S. High Commissioner, intervened. Acting nominally on an appeal by 24 of Okinawa's 64 mayors, he decreed a change in the assembly's bylaws to allow a no-confidence vote if a simple majority is present. He thoughtfully added a new electoral regulation barring "convicted felons" from holding public office-which effectively barred Senaga from seeking reelection. When the assemblymen gathered at Naha's city hall and voted the mayor...
...Japan, which would like to get Okinawa and the rest of the Ryukyu chain back some day, reaction was sharp. "Utter contempt for voters' rights," said Asahi Shimbun. "The prestige of American administration on Okinawa has reached an alltime low in Japanese eyes," said the Japan Times. Summed up one Japanese: "It is unAmerican, and counter to the democratic principles the Americans have taught...
...Invasion? To Fairbanks, Morse President Robert H. Morse Jr., who licked Silberstein in the proxy war, the heavy buying seemed a new Penn-Texas invasion. Fortnight ago, Morse angrily charged Penn-Texas with "flagrant" contempt of the Federal Court that ordered Silberstein to stop trying to take over F-M for five years. Since May, said Morse, Silberstein has bought "some 132,000" additional F-M shares "with the intent and desire of acquiring control," now owns at least 44.4% of the Chicago equipmentmakers' outstanding stock. Morse also charges that sale of the Penn-Texas holdings to another company...
Thurmond described the jury trial clause as "an illegal amendment to the Constitution." This calls for a jury trial only for individuals sentenced to more than 45 days for contempt of court. He added that "it was to secure such rights as trial by jury that the colonies seceded from Great Britain...