Word: contemptibly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...government decided yesterday not to continue its prosecution of Wendell H. Furry, associate professor of Physics, who was indicted last year for contempt of Congress. Furry had refused to disclose the names of any Communists he had known...
...automatic skepticism towards everything that Russia does or says or promises is a natural after-effect of the Great Awakening,the days when the U.S. first recognized the meaning of Stalin's smiles. From an unjustified good faith in Russia's intentions, America leaped into fear and a deep contempt for the new enemy, instead of assuming a proper attitude of caution and watchful reserve... In reaction to Soviet offers to confer, the U.S. answers with despairing pessimism instead of cautious optimism. When Russia announced her arms cut, Secretary Dulles, a man of few and ill-chosen words, responded that...
...warns, those who continue to grumble at America are merely singing a worn-out tune. "They forget that the true creator's role, even in its bitterest attack, is to make us understand or endure life better. Our intellectuals do neither when they entice us to more self-contempt...
...automatic skepticism towards everything that Russia does or says or promises is a natural after-effect of the Great Awakening, the days when the U.S. first recognized the meaning behind Stalin's smiles. From an unjustified good faith in Russia's intentions, America leaped into fear and a deep contempt for the new Enemy, instead of assuming a proper attitude of caution and watchful reserve. As a result, the official American response to Soviet peace antics has been reflexive denouncement and obvious bad faith...
...address climaxed a wide-spread controversy over whether the 47-year-old New Hampshire resident should be allowed to speak on the campus of the state university, Sweezy, a former CRIMSON president who is now co-editor of the New York magazine "Monthly Review," was convicted of contempt of court for refusing to answer questions about his 1954 lecture...