Word: contemptibly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sheffield, Knox, Stevens & Dale, young Timmy, top student and Law Review editor, fairly radiates integrity. He worships Partner Henry Knox, the kindly, austere senior who regards his firm as "a group of gentlemen loosely associated by a common enthusiasm for the practice of law," and has nothing but lofty contempt for Partner Sheridan Dale, the go-getting parvenu who thinks of his job as "big business...
...reckless driving and revoked his license for 30 days, 81-year-old William R. Lowrey grudgingly surrendered the license to a bailiff, later snatched it back and sprinted away, was hauled back before the judge and ordered to produce the license, drew two days in jail for contempt of court when he boasted...
Stir Until Done. In Columbus, Ohio, released unexpectedly after serving a 30-day jail term for being drunk. Stanley James Van Sky remembered that he still had to serve ten days for contempt of court, got sozzled puzzling about it, took his problem to reporters who checked with police, who jugged him again for drunkenness while matters were being straightened...
...regime's sense of achieved stability was the news that Red China is about to attempt a system of codified law, a Western concept never adopted or imposed on the Chinese (as it was, for example, by the British in colonial India). Dryly commenting that the contempt for law traditionally shown by China's millions "was probably increased by the mass revolutionary movements, because mass movements did not entirely rely on laws," Peoples Court President Tung Pi-wu listed among most urgent needs: a criminal code, a civil code, a law of procedure, a labor...
Though he does not see the Qumran sect as the originator of Christianity, Allegro feels that it profoundly influenced the first Christians. Withdrawn into the desert from the persecution of a corrupt priesthood in Jerusalem, holding in contempt the scribes and Pharisees (whom they called "Seekers After Smooth Things"), the Qumran community practiced baptism, chastity, community of goods. They wrote the ritual of a Messianic banquet with breaking of bread and blessing of wine, which Allegro boldly suggests may prefigure the Last Supper and Christian Communion. They expected the imminent end of the world and the coming of two Messiahs...