Word: contemptibly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...silent or doghouse treatment. Each unhappy husband and wife are invited to sign the contract, agreeing to all the pertinent parts. The key clause: parties who sign place themselves voluntarily under the jurisdiction of the court, and are liable to a fine or a stretch in jail for contempt of court if they renege...
...week, under treatment in the hospital at Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines, she was reported to be "periodically aware." Said Missionary Bradshaw: "I have just as much love for the Chinese people as ever, but for the gang that kidnaped us I have nothing but loathing and contempt." The gang seemed well pleased with itself. The Bradshaws, said Peking's Red Cross smugly, had been released "with leniency...
...Dutch Art Dealer Theo van Gogh had turned into a boisterous rendezvous for the despised impressionists. There congregated the unbought painters, including Toulouse-Lautrec, then 23, and swashbuckling Paul Gauguin, 39, the onetime stockbroker who was now a full-fiedged painter just back from Panama and Martinique, roaring with contempt as he shook his carved cane like a fencing master before the academic Beaux Arts paintings hanging on the walls about them. Among them the clodhopperish. red-bearded Dutchman Vincent van Gogh, 34. Art Dealer van Gogh's younger brother, recently arrived in Paris, was usually a silent onlooker...
...Russian mind, much broad talk of love is entirely consonant with much narrow practice of hatred; but Khrushchev, for all the verbal virtuosity of his performance, for-all the too-familiar clasping of Asia to his bosom, has been treating the intelligence of his hosts with no little contempt if he imagines that his torrent of words is enough to sweep them off their feet...
...Reds had several advantages. They had lost some 138,000 prisoners and did not care a damn about them. The U.N had lost 100,000 (only 7,000 Americans), and cared desperately to keep faith with them. Given these facts, together with a Communist's contempt for the ancient rules of human intercourse, the enemy negotiators in Korea turned a Red debacle into a near victory...