Word: contemptibly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Author Fast went to jail in 1948 for contempt of Congress, he proclaimed that his persecutors were non-human characters, trying to turn the U.S. into an "abomination." This is a valuable clue to the art of Author Fast, for the people in his stories are not exactly human...
...that the U.S., up to 1953, was so little aware of what was happening to the millions of NKVD victims in Russia and China that we could be surprised at what had happened to our soldiers in Chinese prisons - that our military leaders proved their utter confusion by cold contempt toward the prisoners broken by the Reds, and by court-martial proceedings against these prisoners later...
...committee could detect no rigid pattern of Communist interrogation, and was often impressed by the inconsistencies of the Communist enemy. "Sometimes he showed contempt for the man who readily submitted to bullying. The prisoner who stood up to the bluster, threats and blows . . . might be dismissed with a shrug ..." Some of the P.W.s who appeased the Communists by giving them "biographical sketches" later found that the Communists used the documents against them, punishing them for "lying"; many of those who signed confessions were later informed that they were liable for new prosecution as war criminals...
Chandler treats Combs with contempt, never refers to him by name ("Of course, Clementine picked this unsuspecting little fellow to run for governor"). Chandler described Wetherby as a spendthrift tosspot, dangling on Clements' string: "Clementine just picks up his telephone in Washington and tells that little Hitler down in Frankfort what...
...scurrilous article about her and a Negro handyman and chauffeur whom the magazine said she once employed. Confidential's implication of "indecent acts" is "completely and entirely false and untrue," said her suit (the fifth libel action now pending against Confidential), and exposed her to "disgrace, contempt and ridicule.'' Hollywood Attorney Jerry Giesler, who filed the suit, said his client was not interested in a monetary settlement, would turn over any court award to charity. Her real purpose, said he, was "to defend her good name against the ugly, unfounded and scurrilous attack, ... to discourage this magazine...