Word: contemptibly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contempt trial of Wendell H. Furry, associate professor of Physics, has been assigned for May 21 at the Boston Federal Courthouse...
...with shrieks, screams and wolfish roars as the Russian nobility, ever lovers of traditional customs, pursue nude serfs round and round the banquet hall. But Caroline is resolved at least to keep her head. As Prince Michael bears down upon her, his "greedy and sarcastic gaze" inflamed with "voluptuous contempt," Caroline puts a torch to the hangings. Gusts of fire sweep the room. Amid shouts, pistol shots and clouds of alcoholic smoke, Caroline legs it from the lodge, with Michael in hot pursuit, "howling like a wolf." Too late! Caroline has won again...
Marcus Singer, former instructor in Zoology, was convicted Friday of contempt of Congress for refusing to state whether he had attended wartime meetings of a Communist study group at Harvard. He will probably appeal the Washington, D.C., Federal Court decision...
...original indictment contained 22 counts, but Singer was convicted on only one, which charged that he was in contempt for not declaring whether or not he had attended meetings of the group between 1940 and 1945, which included Wendell H. Furry, associate professor of Physics, and other faculty members...
...Atlantic is itself a crisp, readable salute to the U.S. and British flyers, seamen and scientists who met and smashed what may well have been Nazi Germany's toughest and most ruthless service. The measure of U.S. unreadiness can easily be taken by anyone who remembers the near contempt with which German subs sank ships in broad daylight within sight of the East Coast. How quickly Allied brains and guts turned the tide can be read in Morison's triumphant figures: of nearly 13,000 ships that sailed the North Atlantic in convoy in 1944, only 13 were...