Word: contemptibly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...author of God and Man at Yale and of McCarthy and His Enemies, about the only book favorable to McCarthy to have been reviewed in the New York Times His subject was "The Liberal Mind," of which he probed three aspects: its inconsistency; its intolerance; and its contempt for facts and evidence. This, he said, is the kind of mind that dominates both political parties, from President Eisenhower leftward...
...Elections had been forced to ask questions only because Joe would supply none of the answers. And Senator Arthur Watkins brusquely pointed out that Joe's censure had had nothing at all to do with Joe's tax affairs. Said Watkins: "He has not been purged of contempt. No apologies are in order...
Thus did John Keats, with a poet's fine contempt for quibbling research,* immortalize the moment in 1513 when Vasco Núñez de Balboa became the first recorded European to gaze upon the Pacific Ocean. Balboa's discovery led to the conquest of Peru, and by 1535 the Spaniards were feverishly carting the gold and silver loot of the luckless Incas over Panama's Camino Real (Royal Road) to the tall treasure galleons that sailed for Spain. Last week a 28-year-old U.S. Army lieutenant, who has already retraced Balboa's path...
Judge Bailey Aldrich '28 yesterday abruptly ended the three-month preliminary battle over the contempt of Congress indictments of Wendell H. Furry and Leon J. Kamin by denying defense motions to dismiss the charges. Furry and Kamin may now be tried...
When the attorneys have finished, Judge Aldrich must decide whether the indictments for contempt of Congress returned against the two in December are legally valid and can serve as a basis for trial...