Word: contemptibly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...institutions avoid the leftist label, and embarrassment both to themselves and to their own universities. The actions of Miller and his colleagues--whose records have never been associated with the word "communism"--have had great force in showing the public, as well as University of Washington administrators, in what contempt the thoughtful academic community holds the Oppenheimer...
...Passed a bill under which congressional committees could ask federal courts to order balky witnesses to appear, thus subjecting them to contempt-of-court penalties for refusal...
Defense motions to dismiss the contempt of Congress indictments against Furry and Leon J. Kamin '49, research assistant in psychology at McGill, were filed March...
...Government were released from prison last week after having served 44 months of five-year sentences (16 months off for good behavior). But they were not free men. Benjamin J. Davis Jr., 51, former New York City councilman, was immediately taken to Pittsburgh to serve a 60-day contempt-of-court sentence. The others were rearrested on charges of knowingly being members of a party dedicated to violent overthrow of the Government, a charge first tested by the Government when Claude Lightfoot was convicted in Chicago last month, and released in $5,000 bail. The five were: Eugene Dennis...
...troops are unreliable. In this atmosphere, Chaplain Roget's spirit is badly battered. Fear paralyzes him in the midst of a vicious battle for a strongpoint. When Roget lets his driver die without trying to save him, and fails even to comfort the dying, the colonel's contempt becomes withering. Then, piled onto his knowledge of his own unworthiness, Roget is forced to admit to himself that he is tempted by the nymphomaniac wife of an American missionary...