Word: contemptibly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...luncheon or at a cocktail party, Kenya's handsome, articulate Tom Mboya is one of Africa's most winning personalities. But in his campaign to force Kenya's whites to surrender their political control of the fertile British East African colony, Tom Mboya shows a steely contempt for moderatjon and half measures. His platform: complete electoral equality for Kenya's blacks and whites by 1960, common schools for all races and a ban on further white immigration to Kenya...
...Portrait Painter Simon Elwes; and Shipping Heiress Tessa Kennedy, 21, who traveled 7,000 miles about the Western Hemisphere with Dominic to escape an English court order barring their marriage, married him in Cuba, returned to London where she saw him off to jail to serve 14 days for contempt of court: a son; in London. Name: Cassian Gary...
...rest of his days, Norwegians heaped contempt on the old recluse they had once revered as "the giant of the North." Thousands of copies of his famed novels were mailed back to him or dumped on the doorstep of his south coast farmstead. Before he died in 1952, a Norwegian court blocked all the old man's bank accounts, imposed a fine of 425,000 kroner ($86,000), which was later reduced to 325,000 kroner...
...cynical maneuver, Strongman Castro set a mob on the Presidential Palace, then went on television to denounce Urrutia as a "traitor." Not since the time in the 1930s when Dictator Fulgencio Batista went through five puppets in two years had a President of Cuba been treated with such contempt...
Gentlemen & Scholars. If U.S. intellectuals ever had a right to feel oppressed, says Lipset, it was in the late 19th century, when Henry Adams eloquently brooded over the rise of the so-called "robber barons." The anti-intellectualism of that day was the cold contempt of unlettered men (whose scions later gave millions to universities). The result-since the U.S. lacked a conservative tradition -was to fill intellectuals, from Wilson through Roosevelt, with liberal reformist zeal. But the anti-intellectualism of today is no longer contempt for a low-status group. It is more likely fear of a high-status...