Word: contemptibly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...like a man who was far from being his own master. Though he understands English well, Chou insisted on reading his answers in mechanical Chinese for an interpreter to translate. The answers themselves were composed so clumsily and delivered so dispiritedly that the onlooker could wonder, vicariously, whether the contempt of Red China's Premier was directed only at his listeners, or also at what he was asking them to listen...
...Convicted last week of criminal contempt for violating a 1949 antitrust judgment requiring him to sell 39 of his more than 100 movie houses. A Buffalo District Court ruled that instead of a bona fide sale, Schine Enterprises "sold" the theaters to its affiliated companies...
...itself youth was also on the move, and did not seem to care whose sacred feet it trod on. Rising to address a youth rally at Moscow University recently, Khrushchev was greeted with a continuous thunder of applause that prevented him from speaking. Thus the Moscow students expressed their contempt for the present Communist leadership and expressed their solidarity with the youth of Poland and Hungary...
Strategy Backfiring. Many Southern legal eagles argued no, and Conservative Democrat Dave Lawrence stated their case: "Contempt charges . . . have been applied heretofore primarily to acts committed in a courtroom or with respect to property seized by an individual which he may be forced to bring into a courtroom." This view ignored the classic use of the contempt-of-court charge to enforce the injunctive power, e.g., in the fines totaling $30,000 levied in 1946 and 1948 against United Mine Workers President John L. Lewis for disobeying a court order to return his miners to work. The contempt citation...
...Louisiana and Texas sent word that they would attend the trial themselves or have representatives there. Fund-raising drives for the defense were organized in Tennessee, South Carolina, Alabama, Texas, Louisiana and Georgia. The issue to be fought out in Knoxville: Can the federal judiciary properly invoke its broad contempt-of-court powers to enforce the Supreme Court's desegregation decision...