Word: contemptibly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week a Fort Worth grand jury summoned Allen to tell where he got his information. Allen refused to tell. He was taken into court. Judge Dave McGee held him in contempt, fined him $100 and sentenced him to jail until he was ready to talk. As he turned in his neat business suit for striped dungarees, Allen said defiantly: "To expose some of this crookedness, it's worth the price. I will stay here for life if necessary...
...Autherine comes back, no one could tell. Led by a racist sophomore from Selma, Ala. named Leonard Wilson, a Tuscaloosa White Citizens' Council was determined to do everything possible to keep her away. But Autherine herself was equally determined. While waiting for the courts to hear the contempt charge she filed against the university trustees for suspending her, she has been living and studying at nonsegregated Talladega College (enrollment 275), 118 miles from Tuscaloosa. She has even turned down a scholarship offer from the University of Copenhagen. Said she: "I keep hoping and praying that this disturbance caused...
...America is hell-bent for outer space. It has rocketed right out of the realms of common sense and common experience. That does not necessarily make it bad. But it does leave the vast bulk of onlookers earthbound, with mouths agape and eyes reflecting a mixture of puzzlement, vexation, contempt. A cursory study of advance-guard painting gives rise to the conclusion that it consists, like the Mock Turtle's arithmetic, of "Ambition, Distraction, Uglification and Derision." It is wild, woolly, willful. But nothing has only one side, and negatives cannot sum up America's newest painting...
...Beneath Contempt. Faced with such incendiary propaganda, the British Government announced in the House of Commons that it was considering jamming Athens broadcasts to the island crown colony. Immediately there was an outcry from Britain's Labor Opposition. Never in Lord Haw-Haw's noisiest days had the British jammed the Nazi radio; Winston Churchill preferred to treat Goebbels' propaganda as beneath contempt. But, argued the Tories last week, the circumstance is different when Greek incites fellow Greek to terrorism. And Britain, which in a desperate hour sent what troops it could spare to Greece to fight...
...McCarthy was just another minority member of the Senate Committee on Government Operations; he has never been much disposed to provide newspaper copy for another man's headlines. On the legal front, he lost two important decisions in the acquittal of Corliss Lamont and Leon Kamin on contempt of Congress charges...