Word: contemptibly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...terms. In the palm-strewn lobbies of Eastbourne's hotels, aged widows gossiped and fingered their heavily insured necklaces, and retired colonels humphed over the bad news from Egypt. But topic No. i was something none of their newspapers could say under Britain's strict libel and contempt laws: that the doctor may also have quickened the deaths of a dozen or more other Eastbourne patients...
...judgment that "somebody had bobbled," Robert Shelton, 30, refused three times to answer questions about possible Communist affiliations at the subcommittee's open hearings last January. With three other Manhattan newsmen, he invoked the First Amendment (freedom of speech and the press) ; all four were indicted for contempt of Congress (TIME...
...Rauh Jr., chairman of Americans for Democratic Action, argued that the investigation was illegal because it served "no valid legislative purpose," that the subcommittee had no more right to question Shelton than any other "man off the street," heard his testimony solely to "expose him and others to contempt and ridicule." The investigation was a "reprisal" against the Times, which had frequently criticized the segregationist views of Mississippi's Democratic Senator James Eastland, subcommittee chairman. Rauh pointed out that 30 of the 38 witnesses called to testify in closed session were current or onetime employees of the Times...
...invoked the First Amendment, refused to answer such questions as: "Did you, or do you, know Herbert Philbrick?" on the further grounds that they pried into her private thoughts and were meant, not to elicit pertinent information, but only to humiliate her. Last fall Mary Knowles was indicted for contempt of Congress...
...Whatever the merits of the argument, the pictorial demonstration is compelling. The Great Man pounces quickly on its subject matter and, from first image to last, never lets go. Aiming a screenful of bile at the industry in general, it releases its most acidulous contempt at a single personality, an "American idol." Is it a roman a clef? Says Author Morgan: "No one has sued...