Word: contemptibly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...main question before the court: Negro Student Autherine Lucy's contempt-of-court charge against the trustees and president of the University of Alabama for having barred her "for her protection" after the riots that followed her admission (TIME, Feb. 20). But Autherine's lawyers, all connected with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, had also: 1) charged the trustees and other university officials with conspiring with the rioters. 2) accused Dean of Women Sarah Healy of contempt for barring Autherine from university dormitories and dining halls, 3) filed contempt charges against four...
False & Scandalous. That afternoon, Judge Grooms was ready with his decision. He announced that he 1) was taking under advisement the contempt charge against Dean of Women Healy, and 2) had found that throughout the riots the trustees and officials had acted in "good faith." But, he added, "the court does not find and does not conclude that law and order in this state have broken down, or that the law enforcement agencies of this state are unwilling or inadequate to maintain law and order at the university. The court is therefore of the opinion that the order of suspension...
...Frenzy. Before leaving for Manhattan with Lawyer Marshall for a rest and medical checkup, Autherine Lucy declared herself "shocked by this latest turn of events." But the university's action was only one cause for shock. Last week the four men against whom Autherine's lawyers filed contempt charges for participating in the Tuscaloosa riots slapped Autherine with damage suits amounting to $4,000,000. Meanwhile, the Alabama legislature went into a frenzy of activity, produced a whole series of resolutions and bills to counteract the N.A.A.C.P.'s battle against segregation. Among its activities...
...have so frequently heard, of someone in a youth group, or someone helping youngsters to use their leisure time, 'Oh, he isn't trained,' or 'She isn't a trained social worker,' said in a tone of contempt. I'm sick to death of trained social workers! I don't mind how many degrees, nor how many hours and years someone has worked for those degrees! What good is he if he hasn't an understanding heart...
...themselves, taking advantage of the machine's very unwieldiness, he sets out to make fools of the men who run his life. Through devices that any old soldier can only admire, he gets his noncoms and even his captain into so much regulation trouble that they earn the contempt of the battery commander. Gunner Asch wins his corporal's stripes and shows up the simple-mindedness of the goose-steppers. But by a superb irony, he is the final loser; through the simple expedient of throwing all the Asch-inspired reports into the waste basket, the commander restores...