Word: contemptibly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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July i), the convictions of 14 defendants who had variously been prosecuted as Communists under the Smith Act or found guilty of contempt of Congress or of state antisubversive investigating groups...
Convicted last week on 31 counts of contempt of Congress: horse-loving, track-following, fast-living Frank Brewster, boss of the eleven-state Western Conference of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Brewster refused to answer questions put to him last January by the Senate Permanent Investigations Subcommittee because, said his lawyers, the committee was exceeding its authority. Moreover, they argued, he had purged himself by answering later before the labor-investigating McClellan committee. Federal District Judge John J. Sirica disagreed on both points. Maximum possible sentence on each of the 31 contempt counts: one year in jail...
...Aragon (who was later outraged to learn that the capitalist press knew of his appeal). Seemingly impressed, the Kadar regime said last week that, "pending re-examination of the case," it had "suspended" the death sentences of Intellectuals Obersovszky and Gali. But three days later it showed its complete contempt for world opinion by hanging youthful (25) Student Toth and her three Freedom-Fighting comrades...
...comes off really well in this disenchanted novel, but if Gunner Asch occasionally shows contempt for Americans both as administrators and fighting men, it is nothing compared to his virulent shame for his own people, who have, he says, "the biggest words, the loudest cries, the most willing hands, the most trusting hearts and the emptiest brains! God save us Germans from ourselves, a race of natural suicides...
...soldiers are tough and cynical; they hold their own officers in nearly as much contempt as they do the Russians. Few have any clear idea of war aims, and most fight merely because they have no alternative. Yet there is always a swaggering consciousness of their own worth. "You know, boys," boasts a veteran, "I think that if there were thirty million of us, we'd take a crack at the whole world...