Word: contemptibly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other TIME correspondents sleuthed the progress of civil rights from secret conference to secret caucus to be ready and waiting to provide both the behind-the-scenes story and knowing coverage when the story broke into historic debate. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Surprising Defeat, The Rearguard Commander, and Jury Trials & Contempt...
...powerful grew "Mr. Dee" that two months ago, when U.S. attorneys attempted to hale him before a trial jury as the mastermind behind the acid-blinding (TIME, April 16, 1956 et ante) of Labor Columnist Victor Riesel, two key underworld Government witnesses took added five-year sentences for contempt rather than sing against Dio on the witness stand, and Johnny Dio's trial had to be postponed...
...heels of the U.S. Supreme Court's desegregation decision, which ruled out the old separate but equal precedent. And when violence and rioting followed in Clinton (TIME, Sept. 10 et seq.), it was Little Bob Taylor who sternly slapped the racial agitators with criminal charges of contempt of court...
...wrong is a question to be debated in the public forum of speech and press. The right or wrong of integration is not pertinent to the question before the jury, namely, whether the defendants violated the injunction aforesaid under such circumstances as to make them guilty of criminal contempt...
...Love Parliament." Although Tory old pros in his party warned that such high-mindedness had no political sex appeal, Diefenbaker plunged ahead. "I love Parliament," he said, and described the occasions when the Liberal government had held it "in contempt." Quoting Howe's "Who's to stop us?" Diefenbaker thundered: "The road of the Liberal government leads to the extinction of parliamentary government in Canada...